Dialogue analysis: a case study on the New Testament

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 603-623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chak Yan Yeung ◽  
John Lee
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
The New Testament

Reading tradition as pedagogy in Calvin and Augustine: the case of election

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-45
Author(s):  
Michelle C. Sanchez
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Fundamental Interest ◽  
Christian Teaching ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Doctrine Of Election ◽  
Theological Authority ◽  
Pedagogical Framework

AbstractIn colloquial English the word ‘tradition’ tends to be understood as a noun referring to a more-or-less static set of propositions, often used to define the identity of the particular group that accepts them. This article seeks to challenge this convention by defending an older, more fluid sense oftraditiothat is not only found in but formative of a variety of major Christian theological sources. The argument draws especially on Jean Calvin, his preferred theological authority Augustine and briefly the New Testament itself, showing that each demonstrates a fundamental interest in Christian teaching as participation in divine pedagogy. Using the doctrine of election as a case study, I argue that this pedagogical framework evidences a dynamic conception oftraditioastradere, or a discourse on how human beings faithfully participate in what is properly a divine giving-and-receiving. This conception of tradition as pedagogy is commended for both its theological and its critical merit.

scholarly journals A Hermeneutics of Blessing as a Meta-Requisite for Reconciliation: John E. Toews’ Romans Paradigm as a Case Study

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vern Redekop
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Practical Wisdom ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Biblical Scholar

Within an overall framework of reconciliation as a transformation of mimetic structures of violence to mimetic structures of blessing, teachings of blessing are needed throughout the process. “Teachings” are considered as paradigmatic stories, principles, insights, and practical wisdom that are derived both from religious traditions and the human sciences. “Blessing” refers to that which contributes to sustained human well-being at the individual, collective and relational levels. A hermeneutics of blessing is a deliberate interpretive endeavour directed toward the generation of teachings of blessing. It can be used with any particular source and the insights can be both direct and inverse, identifying what is helpful and not helpful for reconciliation processes. John E. Toews, biblical scholar specializing on the book of Romans in the New Testament, is examined as someone practicing a hermeneutics of blessing. His paradigm of Romans shows how it can be viewed as a letter addressing an identity-based conflict involving Jews and Gentiles. A set of practical teachings of blessing is synthesized from Romans 12 to 15, using the Toews hermeneutical paradigm.

Semantic Voids, New Testament Translation, and Anachronism

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 315-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Eyl
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
New Testament ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Christian Churches ◽  
God's People ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Pauline Studies ◽  
Paul's Letters ◽  
Consistent Problem

This essay addresses the problem of theologically-inflected English translation choices of the New Testament, and how those translations come to bear in theologically disinterested scholarship on Christian beginnings. As a case study I examine the ubiquitous rendering ofekklesiaas “church” in Paul’s letters. I argue that Paul was not referring to Christian churches, but to the “day of theekklesia” in the Septuagint, when God’s people gathered at Sinai/Horeb. Paul is not making Christians out of pagans; he is making quasi-Judeans out of gentiles. Renderingekklesiaas “church” inscribes Christian essentialism into Paul’s letters, and masks what Paul is actually doing with this word. The bridging of Greek-to-English semantic voids on the part of translators and New Testament scholars is a consistent problem that frustrates advancements in Pauline studies, and in studies of the religions of the Roman Empire more generally.

scholarly journals Intertextuality and historical approaches to the use of Scripture in the New Testament

2005 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 447-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Moyise
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Previous Article ◽  
1 Peter ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Relationship

In a previous article in this journal (2002:418-31), I offered a taxonomy of five ways that the term “intertextuality” is being used in biblical studies. In this article, I wish to clarify the relationship between intertextuality and historical approaches to the use of Scripture in the New  Testament. I take as a case study the use of Isaiah 8:12-13 in 1 Peter 3:14-15 and conclude that historical and literary approaches both have an important role to play in elucidating the meaning of this text. I also take the opportunity of responding to some of the arguments put forward by critics of intertextuality.

scholarly journals Kultuurimperialisme as ’n hermeneutiese dilemma: Eerste-wêreldse en Derde-wêreldse perspektiewe op Jesus as die Seun van God

1994 ◽  
Vol 50 (1/2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andries Van Aarde
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Third World ◽  
Cultural Imperialism ◽  
Son Of God ◽  
African Theology ◽  
The Third ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Third World ◽  
First World

The hermeneutical dilemma of cultural imperialism: First-World and the Third-World perspectives on Jesus as the Son of God In this essay the hermeneutical dilemma of cultural imperialism in the engagement of First-World theology with Third-World theology is addressed by means of a hermeneutics of conversation. The Christological title ‘Son of God’ serves as a case study. Western ontological Christology is compared with the christological perspective in African theology of the Son of God as elder brother and as ancestor. Both these perspectives are interpreted in the light of the evidence in the New Testament.

Challenging anti-Judaism in the New Testament: a case study from Luke

Theology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 123 (6) ◽  
pp. 424-431
Author(s):  
Ann Conway-Jones
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Complex Dynamics ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Biblical Commentaries

What are the most troubling New Testament verses for Jewish–Christian relations? Matthew 27.25 or John 8.44 perhaps? I am increasingly disturbed by Luke 4.28–30, particularly after hearing sermons that take the story at face value, seeking to explain why the Nazareth synagogue worshippers turned into a lynch mob, rather than questioning why Luke published such a calumny. This article examines the explanations given in biblical commentaries for the behaviour of the Nazareth congregation. It argues that we ought to be looking instead to Luke’s context, and the complex dynamics involved in Gentiles adopting Israel’s Scriptures, prepared to acknowledge the violence of New Testament rhetoric.

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