The Theological Importance of Prof. Uwe’s Christian Poems

DIALOGO ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-39
Author(s):  
Paul Tseng (Tseng Kuei-chi)
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Bertolt Brecht ◽  
The Core ◽  
Real Nature ◽  
Profound Knowledge ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Core Value

Prof. Heinz-Uwe Haus is an internationally renowned director and is considered one of the world’s leading authorities on Bertolt Brecht. Besides his theatrical achievements, he proves to have a profound knowledge of Christian doctrines, which is significantly well portrayed in his Christian poems. His poetic lines unveil the essential spirit of the New Testament. In this paper, a few poems are chosen to illustrate his theological thoughts, which are intricately connected with the core value of the New Testament, including Jesus’ crucifixion, salvation, man’s real nature, fundamental faith, and so on.

Hans von Campenhausen on Canon

1974 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-343
Author(s):  
Dennis E. Groh
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
The Core ◽  
The New Testament

As the formal canon of the New Testament was wider than the core New Testament, so also the early church's notions of “scripture” were wider than those documents which became canon. By understressing this point, much of the richness and existential plurality of the early church's experience can be lost.

Preaching the Law

1960 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Ragnar Bring
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Know How ◽  
The Core ◽  
The People ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Law

In The New Testament the word ‘Law’ is largely equivalent to what we today call the Old Testament. But there are exceptions to this use of the term. The Law sometimes designates the Pentateuch. This is the case in the liturgy of the Synagogue. But for the Jews the term ‘Law’ also could include their entire religious tradition. It governed the daily life of the people—not only in matters of what we call worship, morality, ethics or religion but also in matters legal, social and political. Additions to the commandments found in the Pentateuch and the commentaries that had been added and still were being added, were not thought to be something foreign to the law. It was thought that they simply applied what the Scriptures said. The phrase ‘it has been said to them of old times’ is often understood as being merely a formula of disapproval, since in the Gospels Jesus criticised these rules. But their original purpose was to continue the tradition of which the Scriptures were the core. Their contemporary significance was manifest in the constantly renewed discussion of how they were to be interpreted and applied. For this purpose casuistic rules were needed, that took into account all the concrete situations of life. Thus a lawabiding Jew could always know how he had to act.

scholarly journals Walter Schmithals: His contribution to the theological and historical interpretation of the New Testament

2011 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Piet B. Boshoff
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Early Christianity ◽  
Historical Jesus ◽  
Theological Interpretation ◽  
Historical Interpretation ◽  
Historical Criticism ◽  
The Core ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of this article was to explain Walter Schmithals’ unique understanding of the unity of the New Testament message. It focuses on his historical en theological interpretation of the New Testament within the parameters of the historical-critical paradigm. This article describes how Schmithals combines historical criticism with the core tenets of Protestant theology. The following facets were emphasised: Gnosticism, gospel studies and Q, Paul, early Christianity, emperor cult, separation from the synagogue, historical Jesus, apocalypticism, historical Jesus, the relationship between the Old and New Testament, ecclesiology and New Testament ethics.

The Formation of the Canon and the Creation of the “New Testament”

2021 ◽  
pp. 65-101
Author(s):  
Donald Senior
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Parallel Process ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Entire Process ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
The Core ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Key Factor

A key factor in considering the various writings of the New Testament as sacred and normative was their eventual inclusion into the “canon.” This chapter traces the evolution of the canon, the process by which it was formed, and the apparent norms for judging which books should be included. The entire process is a subject of much debate and hypothesis. An assumption on the part of early Christianity, similar to a parallel process occurring in Judaism, was that certain books were divinely inspired and ultimately originated in divine authority. Key factors in judging which books should be “canonical” were such criteria as connection with figures of the early apostolic church, harmony with the fundamental convictions of Christian faith, and the “reception” or widespread use of certain books by early Christian communities. While the core books of the canon were accepted early, such as the Letters of Paul and the Gospels, other writings were subject to some dispute before being accepted.

Michael Prior, The Bible and Anti-Semitism

2007 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duncan Macpherson
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Mirror Image ◽  
The Core ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Colonial Oppression ◽  
Gospel Message

Michael Prior raised the issue of Bible texts apparently morally unacceptable and at odds with the “core Gospel message” of the liberating love of God revealed in Jesus Christ. He pointed to Old Testament texts invoked to justify colonialism and, in particular, the colonial oppression of the Palestinians. Others have underlined texts in the New Testament used to justify anti-Semitism. Opinion divides between blaming the interpreters and blaming the texts themselves, usually by questioning their historicity. Both issues impact upon the Israeli-Palestinian confl ict and raise mirror-image questions concerning biblical inspiration demanding the liberationist hermeneutic implicit in Prior's work.

Conclusions

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alicia D. Myers
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
The Core ◽  
Gendered Identities ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Gender Hierarchies ◽  
Gender Constructions ◽  
Ideal Womanhood

This chapter summarizes the findings of the previous chapters, arguing that acknowledging the gender hierarchies and physiological constructions at the core of maternal imagery in the New Testament serves at least two purposes. First, it enables readers of the New Testament and early Christian literatures to understand better the imagery and theologies within these writings. Second, it exposes the fluidity and contested nature of gender constructions in developing Christianity, particularly in discussions of soteriology. Rather than consistently enforcing or prohibiting a maternal telos on women, these writings emphasize a need to be oriented toward life, the source and continuance of which is located in God alone. This reframing of ideal womanhood simultaneously reframes masculinity as well, even though it perpetuates the equation of perfection and masculinity. Noting the constructed nature of these gendered identities, however, can encourage contemporary readers to move beyond ancient gender hierarchies to better appreciate all life.

What is Prophetic about Prophecies: Inspiration or Critical Memory?

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 178-195
Author(s):  
Matthias Wenk
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
People Of God ◽  
The Core ◽  
The People ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Will ◽  
False Prophets ◽  
Will Of God

Books on ‘how to speak prophetically’ are flourishing. They mainly build on the assumption that ‘inspired speech’ defines the core of the prophetic self-understanding. This conjecture is also reflected in many scholarly works on prophecy. This articles argues that at the heart of prophecy in both the Old and the New Testament lays the identity-forming narrative of the people of God. Based on 1 Cor. 1.10–2.16 it shall further be argued that the Spirit’s role may also be described in disclosing the significance of this narrative. That inspired oracles are not pivotal to the New Testament’s understanding of prophecy is further evidenced in Mt. 7.15–34: False prophets are not criticised for the content of their speech but for their lack of obedience to the will of God. Therefore, Pentecostals today might listen carefully to their own identity-forming narrative and telling the story might in itself be a prophetic act.

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

scholarly journals The Core Gospel

1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bill Love
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Churches Of Christ ◽  
The Core ◽  
The New Testament

This book offers summaries of preaching from generations of ministers within the Stone-Campbell tradition and Churches of Christ more specifically. The Core Gospel is divided into three sections: Part One: The Core Gospel in the New Testament; Part Two: Our Restoration Proclamation of the Core Gospel; Part Three: Current Preaching of the Core Gospel (in the 1990s). This book offers one-of-a-kind synopses of preachers and preaching, and is an important source of data on religious life through more than five generations of Christians.

scholarly journals Christelike etiek vanuit die perspektief van naasteliefde: Rudolf Bultmann en Stoïsynse etiek

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andries G. Van Aarde
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Natural Law ◽  
Core Values ◽  
Christian Ethics ◽  
The South ◽  
Ethical Perspective ◽  
The Core ◽  
Rudolf Bultmann ◽  
The New Testament

Christian ethics from the perspective of neighbourly love: Rudolf Bultmann and Stoic ethics. This article consists of various sections. The first concerns a cultural-sensitive explanation of the meaning of the term ‘neighbour’. The second exemplifies Rudolf Bultmann’s understanding of the meaning of the love commandment which is found in the Jesus tradition and in the New Testament. This explanation represents a paraphrase of Bultmann’s reflection on the notion ’neighbourly love’ in Afrikaans. The article elaborates on Bultmann’s interpretation by means of expanded exegetical comments. The article also endorses Bultmann’s juxtaposition of Christian ethics with Greek Stoic ethics. This Greek heritage is described in an expanded way. The article discusses Bultmann’s understanding of neighbourly love within the context of the core values of his hermeneutics. The results are made relevant for the present-day Christian ethical perspective on the adherence to the so-called natural law, applied to the South African sociopolitical situation.

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