Invitation to the New Testament: First Things (second edn)

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-190
Author(s):  
Christoph Stenschke
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Testament ◽  
North American ◽  
The United States ◽  
The New Testament

SummaryIn this attractive and lavishly illustrated introduction to the New Testament, Ben Witherington, a senior evangelical scholar from the United States, provides an excellent survey of the New Testament and the scholarly debates it has engendered. This handbook is a masterpiece of clarity and addresses not only most of the traditional issues and questions of New Testament introduction, but also many of the currently disputed issues which are at the forefront primarily of North American New Testament scholarship and are also crucial to readers elsewhere. Warmly recommended for students and their instructors.RÉSUMÉOn a là une introduction au Nouveau Testament attrayante et bien illustrée. Ben Witherington, spécialiste évangélique américain, fait ici une excellente présentation du Nouveau Testament et des débats académiques qu’il a suscités. Ce manuel brille par sa clarté. Il traite non seulement des sujets traditionnellement abordés dans les ouvrages d’introduction au Nouveau Testament, mais aussi de nombreuses questions débattues sur le devant de la scène académique nord-américaine et qui sont aussi importantes pour les lecteurs d’autres parties du monde. Cet ouvrage est chaudement recommandé aux étudiants et à leurs enseignants.ZusammenfassungIn dieser ansprechenden und großzügig illustrierten Einleitung in das Neue Testament gibt Ben Witherington, ein etablierter evangelikaler Theologe aus den Vereinigten Staaten, einen ausgezeichneten Überblick über das Neue Testament und die damit verbundene wissenschaftliche Diskussion. Dieses Handbuch ist ein Meisterwerk an Klarheit und behandelt die meisten herkömmlichen Anliegen und Fragen der Einleitung in das Neue Testament; darüber hinaus wendet es sich auch vielen der gegenwärtig diskutierten Themen zu, die vor allem für nordamerikanische Neutestamentler im Vordergrund stehen, aber auch für Leser anderswo von entscheidender Bedeutung sind. Das Buch ist Studenten und ihren Dozenten wärmstens zu empfehlen.

No Longer Foreigners and Aliens: Toward a Missiological Christology for Hispanics in the United States

2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel A. Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Mexican Americans ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
The United States ◽  
The New Testament

This study addresses the need for a missiological Christology informed by the sociohistorical and cultural context of Mexican-Americans. The author analyzes the contribution and relevancy of Christologies elaborated around the “Galilean identity” of Jesus, but argues that from an evangelical perspective, Jesus' Galilean identity does not adequately interpret the meaning of the passion and vindication of Christ. This study demonstrates that a Christology developed around the “Rejected Stone” passages found in the New Testament relates the ministry and passion of Jesus Christ in a contextually relevant way to Mexican-Americans. The author also explores the missiological implications of the proposed Christology.

"Righteousness" in the New Testament: "Justification" in the United States Lutheran-Roman Catholic Dialogue

1985 ◽  
Vol 104 (2) ◽  
pp. 334
Author(s):  
John Piper ◽  
John Reumann ◽  
Joseph A. Fitzmyer ◽  
Jerome D. Quinn
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
The United States ◽  
The New Testament

scholarly journals Church Federation in Missouri

1915 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Frank Archibald Bishop Andrews
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Testament ◽  
The United States ◽  
Christian Religion ◽  
The World ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Protestant Denominations ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
Census Report

1. A Divided Church. The 1906 Census Report on Religious Bodies gives the number of Protestant denominations in the United States as 164. We are so accustomed to this divided condition of Christendom, having no experience of any other condition, that we naturally look upon it as normal and fail to see an incongruity in the situation. Christianity has in it the elements of a great unifying force. Its teaching regarding the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God presents to us the ideal of all mankind in loving and harmonious relationship. The great motive which the teaching of Jesus sets forth as the mainspring of all action, love to man and love to God, would tend to operate against antimostiy, dissension and prejudice. The divisions now existing in Christendom are not an outgrowth of the Christian Religion as found in the New Testament but seem to be rather an outgrowth of man's pride. prejudice and intolerance which lead men to contend for the interpretation of position which they have accepted and to insist that others shall conform to their views and practices. The founder of the Christian religion recognized these conditions as existing in the world and foresaw what their consequences might be in the kingdom. He prayed that his disciples might all be one in order that the world might believe.[superscript 1] The efectiveness and[superscript 1].

The Soul's Comeback: Immortality and Resurrection in Early Christianity

2010 ◽  
Vol 103 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
François Bovon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Human Person ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Body ◽  
Recent Period ◽  
The Core ◽  
Continuous Care ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Biblical Anthropology

In the middle of the twentieth century biblical scholars claimed the unity of the human person as the core of biblical anthropology.1The Hebrew term, “life,” “person,” was no longer to be translated as “soul,” and the best English equivalent for the Greek ψυχή was “person.” In the seventies and eighties, on both sides of the Atlantic, the pendulum swung even further, to the point of favoring the body. In Paris, in the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Pierre Geoltrain offered a lecture course on the “body” in several texts of the New Testament, while in the United States Dale Martin worked on his book published under the titleThe Corinthian Body.2In Geneva, whereexpression corporellehad become a form of instruction in dance and eurhythmic practice at the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze, some New Testament scholars incorporated bodily experience into their understanding of biblical passages.3It was also this time that saw—in the secular realm—the creation of “body shops” and the continuous care of one's own body. With Merleau-Ponty we can say that this recent period witnesses a rediscovery of the body.4

Minoritized Criticism of the New Testament

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tat-siong Benny Liew
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Asian American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
The United States ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Biblical Texts

Minoritized criticism of the New Testament refers generally to academic and critical interpretations of biblical texts by people of color in the United States of America, where they are often called “minorities.” The word “minoritized” signifies that the issue in question is less about number but more about power, as minoritization is a state-sanctioned and ideologically supported process—including using the Bible for justification—of racialization and marginalization against particular persons or communities because of their race/ethnicity and their migration history. With the civil rights movement and James Cone’s development of black liberation theology in the late 1960s, African American biblical scholars began to protest white supremacy by highlighting racial/ethnic relations and tensions in biblical writings and by making their biblical interpretation explicitly contextual to their communities’ histories, experiences, and concerns. Since then, with the model provided by their black colleagues and the emphasis on “social location” within biblical studies, Asian American and Latinx American scholars have also developed their respective hermeneutics to challenge racial discrimination and address issues of identity, representation, inclusion, exclusion, exploitation, oppression, and resistance, among others, both in the biblical texts that they read and in the contemporary situations that their communities face. Given this criticism’s concern with minoritized communities, practitioners often engage African American studies, Asian American studies, or Latinx American studies to inform their work. Because of minoritization’s connection with migration and its dynamics as a form of internal colonialism, there are also often overlaps between minoritized criticism and postcolonial criticism of the New Testament. While minoritized criticism started with a focus on race/ethnicity, subsequent works, upon acknowledgment that there are other identity factors besides race (such as gender, class, sexuality) and recognition that race and other identity factors are often mutually co-constitutive, have been giving greater emphasis on diversities and keener attention to intersectional realities within each minoritized community. Recently, there is a move to understand minoritized criticism as work that engages across racially/ethically minoritized communities (as opposed to scholarship that works exclusively within a critic’s own minoritized community). This understanding emphasizes the reality that minoritized groups are racialized not in isolation but in relation to one another, and the need to decenter whiteness by prioritizing critics of other minoritized communities as one’s interlocutors. Since minoritization as a result of migration may take place in various countries, minoritized criticism of the New Testament can also be practiced and developed outside of the United States.

Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the nomenclature of two North American fishes

1987 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-88
Author(s):  
CHARLOTTE M PORTER
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North American ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Shad ◽  
New Name ◽  
The Common ◽  
Fish Louse

A curious error affects the names of three North American clupeids—the Alewife, American Shad, and Menhaden. The Alewife was first described by the British-born American architect, Benjamin Henry Latrobe in 1799, just two years after what is generally acknowledged as the earliest description of any ichthyological species published in the United States. Latrobe also described the ‘fish louse’, the common isopod parasite of the Alewife, with the new name, Oniscus praegustator. Expressing an enthusiasm for American independence typical of his generation, Latrobe humorously proposed the name Clupea tyrannus for the Alewife because the fish, like all tyrants, had parasites or hangers-on.

scholarly journals “The Future of Archaeology Is Antiracist”: Archaeology in the Time of Black Lives Matter

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Ayana Omilade Flewellen ◽  
Justin P. Dunnavant ◽  
Alicia Odewale ◽  
Alexandra Jones ◽  
Tsione Wolde-Michael ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Heritage Preservation ◽  
Social Unrest ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
The North ◽  
Road Map ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future

This forum builds on the discussion stimulated during an online salon in which the authors participated on June 25, 2020, entitled “Archaeology in the Time of Black Lives Matter,” and which was cosponsored by the Society of Black Archaeologists (SBA), the North American Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG), and the Columbia Center for Archaeology. The online salon reflected on the social unrest that gripped the United States in the spring of 2020, gauged the history and conditions leading up to it, and considered its rippling throughout the disciplines of archaeology and heritage preservation. Within the forum, the authors go beyond reporting the generative conversation that took place in June by presenting a road map for an antiracist archaeology in which antiblackness is dismantled.

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