Scripture, Conversation and Anglican Identity

From the Editor Scripture, Conversation and Anglican Identity

This editorial piece considers the implications of Scriptural Reasoning, a method of inter-religious exchange that is the subject of the present number of the journal, for contemporary Anglicanism. It suggests that the character of Scriptural Reasoning as a conversation held across and despite religious difference offers a challenge to contemporary Anglicans to maintain their own conversation a...

Conversation, Organisation and Identity

This paper focuses on knowledge work in a rehabilitation department at a hospital. We aim at examining the characteristics of this knowledge context and elaborate the conditions for knowledge creation and sharing. We argue that in spite of good intentions, participation in knowledge work is not freely given. New knowledge contexts must take into account how knowledge claims are made, by whom, a...

Interpreting Scripture According to Scripture

Notices Scripture and Interpretation

C. Stephen Evans, Mary Healy, and Murray Rae. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2003. Pp. xx + 553. $34.99. “Behind” the Text, the fourth volume of the Scripture and Hermeneutics Series, is a product of the Scripture and Hermeneutics Seminar (SAHS). According to their website, SAHS “was set up in 1998 to see what could be done to renew interpretation of the Bible as Scripture in the Academy.” SAHS striv...

Probabilistic Programming in Anglican

Anglican is a probabilistic programming system designed to interoperate with Clojure and other JVM languages. We describe the implementation of Anglican and illustrate how its design facilitates both explorative and industrial use of probabilistic programming.