Margaret Barker (1) (1944–)
Autore di Temple Theology
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Sull'Autore
Margaret Barker is a former President of the Society for Old Testament Study, and author of numerous works, including The Older Testament, The Lost Prophet, The Gate of Heaven, The Great Angel. His All Holiness Bartholomew is Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch.
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The Worlds of Joseph Smith: A Bicentennial Conference at the Library of Congress (2006) — Collaboratore — 29 copie
Sacred Space, Sacred Thread: Perspectives across Time and Traditions (2019) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1944
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di residenza
- UK
- Istruzione
- University of Cambridge
- Attività lavorative
- Methodist Preacher
- Organizzazioni
- Society for Old Testament Study (President)
- Breve biografia
- Margaret Barker is a mother and grandmother, a Methodist Preacher, and has been involved, since it opened in 1977, with the work of a Women’s Refuge.
She read theology at the University of Cambridge, England, and went on to pursue her research independently.
She was elected President of the Society for Old Testament Study in 1998*, and is currently the Editor of the Society’s Monograph Series, published by Ashgate.
She has so far written 13 books, which form a sequence, later volumes building on her earlier conclusions.
Since 1997, she has been part of the symposium Religion, Science and the Environment, convened by His All Holiness Bartholomew I, the Ecumenical Patriarch. This work has led her to develop the practical implications of temple theology as the basis for a Christian environment theology.
In July 2008 Margaret Barker was awarded a DD by the Archbishop of Canterbury ‘in recognition of her work on the Jerusalem Temple and the origins of Christian Liturgy, which has made a significantly new contribution to our understanding of the New Testament and opened up important fields for research.
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- ISBN
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Having said all that – this is typical Barker: it's a wild ride through far-flung sources, many of which only scholars will know well enough to follow. There only brief pauses (although I notice her paragraphs are getting a little shorter and there are section headings! Welcome innovation. Perhaps there are editors somewhere in the publication process nowadays). Because this one is comparatively later in the bibliography, she doesn't make the case for a lot of scribal "correction" - she just points to earlier books where she's done so. That's less exhausting if you've already read some other Barker works, but if this is your first, it may not be convincing.
Lastly… well it just stops, as Dr Barker's books often do. There's no undergraduate summing up of the key points. She just says her final thing and then you're in the endnotes. I'm thinking I could write a book called "Summing Up: missing conclusions from the work of Margaret Barker" in which I just write the missing conclusions from every book. I bet it would sell!
All in all, it's not as accessible as Temple Theology or Temple Mysticism, but it's more accessible than a lot of the more academic stuff – partly because it all rotates around this much-loved narrative we all (think we) know.
So, I'd recommend it. I guarantee it will get you more curious about some new things you've never heard of. It will deepen your grasp of Temple Theology and its applications. It will clarify your understanding of the Lady and the role she plays in incarnation.
Merry Christmas!… (altro)