Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Isaac W. Oliver
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
History Of Interpretation ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
History Of

This chapter discusses the history of interpretation of Luke-Acts as it concerns Luke’s relationship to Judaism. The chapter critically assesses common opinions held in New Testament scholarship regarding the concepts of salvation, eschatology, Christian universalism, Jewish particularism, and nationalism. This critical evaluation of scholarship and key concepts lays the foundation for the rest of the investigation, proposing that Luke’s understanding of the eschatological restoration of Israel can be effectively understood in light of Jewish concepts from Luke’s time. In many ways, Luke’s eschatology corresponds to traditional Jewish expectations. The restoration of Israel remains at the center of Luke’s eschatological universe even if it expands to include the nations of the world.

Literary Sources of the Gospel and Letters of John

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Labahn
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Source Criticism ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Final Text ◽  
Written Sources

This chapter investigates the suspicion among New Testament scholars that the author (or the authors) of the Gospel (and Epistles) of John used already written sources which he himself (or they themselves) did not write. Various models of Johannine source criticism are sketched on the basis of selected examples. The chapter delineates the weaknesses and strengths of the source-critical approach on its own terms and to draw conclusions from them for future work. The critical evaluation shows above all that the issue of the literary and non-literary (oral) pre-history of the Johannine writings (‘diachronic’ investigation of the texts) remains an important consideration in Johannes research. Nevertheless, this approach has in the future to take into account more prominently than before the final text and its design (‘synchronic’ investigation of the texts).

scholarly journals Ansatzpunkte für eine Theologie des Neuen Testaments bei Oscar Cullmann und Leonhard Goppelt

1990 ◽  
Vol 46 (1/2) ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J. Gräbe
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Salvation History ◽  
Existential Approach ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
History Of ◽  
Point Of Departure

Points of departure for a theology of the New Testament: Oscar Cullmann and Leonhard Goppelt Both Cullmann and Goppelt offer alternative positions to an existential approach to New Testament theology. After a consideration of Oscar Cullmann’s position in the history of New Testament theology, special attention is given to his concept of salvation history, as well as a critical evaluation of this concept. Goppelt associates himself with the hermeneutical point of departure of Cullmann and Von Rad. Salvation history is, however, filled with new content through reflection on the earthly Jesus. Goppelt’s starting point for a theology of the New Testament is not found in a general easier ‘kerygma’, but in the unfolding of Jesus’ words and deeds.

Trigonometry: A Very Short Introduction

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glen Van Brummelen
Keyword(s):  
Computer Graphics ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Curved Space ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Medieval India ◽  
The Universe

Trigonometry: A Very Short Introduction draws together the full history of trigonometry, stretching across two millennia and several cultures such as ancient Greece, medieval India, and the Islamic world. It introduces the key concepts of trigonometry, drawing readers beyond the basic relationships first encountered in school to reveal the richness of the entire subject of trigonometry and ideas such as curved space. It also explores connections with genuine modern applications, including navigation, the analysis of music, computer graphics, and powerful modelling tools in science, and shows how trigonometry has participated in big questions about the world, including the shape of the universe and the nature of infinity.

God’s Pedagogy of the Embodied Soul

2018 ◽  
pp. 59-110
Author(s):  
Bart van Egmond
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Moral Progress ◽  
The World ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
History Of

This chapter deals with Augustine’s thinking on the soteriological meaning of God’s judgement during his stay in Rome and Thagaste. In this period, Augustine starts to engage explicitly with the Manichaean view of evil in the world. Against the Manichees, he interprets the evil that we suffer as a corrective punishment of the Creator on the sinful soul. In continuity with the Alexandrian tradition, Augustine still believes that man by his free will is capable of making a good use of this divine incentive to return. The chapter also addresses God’s use of judgement in the history of salvation. It opposes the views of scholars who have argued that the early Augustine sees the history of salvation as a process of moral progress from the Old to the New Testament, which would imply that God ceased using earthly punishments to educate his people in the time of the New Testament. A final section treats Augustine’s experience of ordination. It argues that Augustine understood his ordination as divine chastisement for his own arrogance.

scholarly journals Engaging Politics in the New Testament Classroom

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Shepardson
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Early Christianity ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
University Of Tennessee ◽  
The World ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
History Of ◽  
Interesting Class ◽  
Upper Level ◽  
The University

Teaching the historical study of the New Testament and early Christianity at the University of Tennessee requires creativity, confidence, and compassion. The forty-person upper-level “Introduction to the New Testament” course that I teach every year is my most challenging and most pedagogically interesting class, and also the most rewarding. My goal in this class is to make space for a variety of responses to the material while teaching the context and history of the New Testament texts as well as how to think critically about the politics of their interpretation. The challenge is to take the diverse passions that my students bring to the class and help them all to engage together critically with both the historical study of early Christianity and the politics of its interpretation that are so visible in the world around them.

Theology in the septuagint?

2021 ◽  
pp. 104-119
Author(s):  
Mogens Müller
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Reception History ◽  
History Of Interpretation ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
History Of

This chapter is an attempt to outline, not a theology of the Septuagint, but the theology which reveals itself in the special Greek wording of the translation in contrast to its Hebrew Vorlage. An introduction sketches the history of interpretation with regard to the interpretative character of the translation and stresses the importance of distinguishing between what the translators may have intended and what the chosen translation occasioned. There follows an overview of a series of the most significant choices, namely the designations for God, the rendering of ‘Torah’ by ‘Law’, messianic interpretations, and transformations of eschatology. In addition, theology as enculturation is discussed. A conclusion emphasizes the Septuagint as an important chapter in the reception history of the Hebrew Bible and its impact on the development of theology in the New Testament.

Sylvia Wynter’s Theory of the Human: Counter-, not Post-humanist

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 47-65
Author(s):  
Zimitri Erasmus
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Biological Properties ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
History Of

How does Sylvia Wynter’s theory of the human depart from Western bio-centric and teleological accounts of the human? To grapple with this question I clarify five key concepts in her theory: the Third Emergence, auto- and socio-poiesis, the autopoietic overturn, the human as hybrid, and sociogenesis. I draw on parts of Wynter’s oeuvre, texts she works with and my conversations with Anthony Bogues. Wynter invents a Third Emergence of the world to mark the advent of the human as a hybrid being. She challenges Western conceptions that reduce the human to biological properties. In opposition to Western teleology, her counter-cartography of a history of human life offers a relational conception of human existence which pivots around Frantz Fanon’s theory of sociogeny. She draws on Aimé Césaire’s call for a conception of the human made to the measure of the world, not to the measure of ‘Man’. This makes Wynter’s theory counter-, not post-humanist.

“ ‘Epiphanius’ and Patristic Debates on the Marital Status of Peter and Paul”

2013 ◽  
Vol 67 (5) ◽  
pp. 499-516
Author(s):  
David L. Eastman
Keyword(s):  
Marital Status ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Scriptural Interpretation ◽  
History Of Interpretation ◽  
History Of

Abstract A Syriac fragment erroneously ascribed to Epiphanius of Salamis allegedly preserves the names of the wives of Peter and Paul and draws our attention to patristic debates over the marital status of the apostles. In these contexts scriptural interpretation and ascetic ideals interacted, producing varied conclusions about the apostolic teaching and examples. Some patristic authors accepted the married apostles as a matter of fact, while others saw such suggestions as offensive and dangerous. This essay examines the exegetical approaches to key New Testament passages and explores how this fragment fits within the history of interpretation and biographical reception of Peter and Paul.

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