Who Prays the Psalms? Bonhoeffer’s Christological Concentration

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen B. Chapman
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Dietrich Bonhoeffer ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Voice

For Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the voice of the Psalms is theologically identical to the voice of Christ. Bonhoeffer’s primary warrant for this conviction came from the New Testament’s pattern of discourse. Yet, as Rein Bos has demonstrated, the New Testament employs Old Testament texts in at least four senses: a christological sense, an Israel-oriented sense, an ecclesial sense, and an eschatological sense. Bonhoeffer’s interpretive practice did in fact explore these additional senses of the Psalms, but his hermeneutical theory remained too narrow to do them adequate justice. Bonhoeffer’s example demonstrates how christological interpretation of the Psalms is necessary for Christian theology and praxis but not sufficient.

The Church of the Reigning Lord

1948 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-73
Author(s):  
R. Stuart Louden
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Biblical Scholarship ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Pauline Epistles ◽  
History Of ◽  
Four Square ◽  
The Church

We can trace a revival of theology in the Reformed Churches in the last quarter of a century. The new theological interest merits being called a revival of theology, for there has been a fresh and more thorough attention given to certain realities, either ignored or treated with scant notice for a considerable time previously.First among such realities now receiving more of the attention which their relevance and authority deserve, is the Bible, the record of the Word of God. There is an invigorating and convincing quality about theology which is Biblical throughout, being based on the witness of the Scriptures as a whole. The valuable results of careful Biblical scholarship had had an adverse effect on theology in so far as theologians had completely separated the Old Testament from the New in their treatment of Biblical doctrine, or in expanding Christian doctrine, had spoken of the theological teaching of the Synoptic Gospels, the Pauline Epistles, the Johannine writings, and so on, as if there were no such thing as one common New Testament witness. It is being seen anew that the Holy Scriptures contain a complete history of God's saving action. The presence of the complete Bible open at the heart of the Church, recalls each succeeding Christian generation to that one history of God's saving action, to which the Church is the living witness. The New Testament is one, for its Lord is one, and Christian theology must stand four-square on the foundation of its whole teaching.

scholarly journals Makna Teologis Kata Perhentian dalam Ibrani 4:1-14 (Analisis Tekstual, Stuktural, Kontekstual dan Intertekstual)

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-133
Author(s):  
Daniel Lindung Adiatma ◽  
Saul Arlos Gurich
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Book Of Hebrews

There is a tendency for many commentator of the New Testament to interpret the text with a topical approach. This approach is relevant for research in the field of Christian theology. The problem is, the topical approach has a tendency to ignore the unity of the elements of the book. Therefore, we need a model of topical interpretation that is perfected with the unity of the theology of the book. The topic of the theological meaning of the word "rest" has attracted the attention of interpreters recently. These topics are the small sections that make up the theology of the book of Hebrews as a whole. This article presents three analyzes (textual, contextual and intertextual) as an approach to finding the theological meaning of the word "rest" in Hebrews 4:1-14. The author considers the book of Hebrews as the final form to find the meaning of the word "rest" in the theological context of the book of Hebrews. The author tries to synchronize the three approaches in finding the progressive meaning of the word "cessation" in both the Old Testament and the New Testament. The results of research through these three approaches have shown an increase in the meaning of the word "rest" from the context of the Old and New Testaments. Finally, this article can support the theory of progressive revelation that dispensational evangelicals have long believed.Ada kecenderungan penafsir kitab Perjanjian Baru menafsirkan teks dengan pendekatan topikal. Pendekatan ini relevan bagi penelitian pada bidang teologi Kristen. Masalahnya, pendekatan topikal memiliki kecenderungan mengabaikan kesatuan unsur-unsur kitab. Oleh karena itu, diperlukan suatu model penafsiran topikal yang disempurnakan dengan kesatuan teologi kitab. Topik tentang makna teologi kata “perhentian” menarik perhatian para penafsir pada akhir-akhir ini. Topik tersebut merupakan bagian kecil yang membangun teologi kitab Ibrani secara keseluruhan. Artikel ini memaparkan tiga analisa (tekstual, kontekstual dan intertekstual) sebagai pendekatan untuk menemukan makna teologi kata “Perhentian” dalam kitab Ibrani 4:1-14. Penulis mempertimbangkan kitab Ibrani sebagai bentuk akhir untuk menemukan makna kata “perhentian” dalam konteks teologi kitab Ibrani. Penulis berusaha melakukan sinkronisasi tiga pendekatan tersebut dalam menemukan progresifitas makna kata “Perhentian” baik dalam kitab Perjanjian Lama maupun kitab Perjanjian Baru. Hasil penelitian melalui tiga pendekatan tersebut telah menampilkan adanya peningkatan makna kata “Perhentian” dari konteks Perjanjian Lama dan Perjanjian Baru. Akhirnya, artikel ini dapat mendukung teori pewahyuan progresif yang selama ini diyakini oleh kaum injili dispensasi.

scholarly journals Intermediaries in Jewish Theology: Memra, Shekinah, Metatron

1922 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Foot Moore
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Considerable Extent ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Human Form ◽  
The World ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
God The Father

The Christian interpretation of the Old Testament was early set upon finding in it a figure corresponding to the Son, or the Word (Logos), in the New Testament, a divine being, intermediary between God the Father and the world in creation, revelation, and redemption. For Christian theology, with its philosophical presumptions, a God who visibly and audibly manifested himself to men in human form and action was necessarily such a being; the Supreme God, in his supramundane exaltation or his metaphysical transcendence, could not be imagined thus immediately to intervene in mundane affairs. In this assumption and to a considerable extent in their particular interpretations the Fathers had a precursor in the Jewish theologian Philo.

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