Challenges to New Testament Theology

Name: Challenges to New Testament Theology
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Erschienen im Dezember 2019

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Cover
Titel
Preface
Table of Contents
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter One: The Relationship between Historical and Theological Interpretation in New Testament Studies
1. The separation of the enterprises
a. J.P. Gabler
b. D.F. Strauss
c. William Wrede
d. Criticisms of the "purely" historical approach
2. A history of early Christian literature
a. Ernst Troeltsch
b. R.G. Collingwood
c. Van A. Harvey
3. Religious experience instead of doctrine
a. History-of-religion
b. F.C. Baur's study of Lehrbegriffe
c. Wrede's criticism of Holtzmann
d. The relationship with systematic theology
e. The problem of a thematic structure
f. Experience
4. Against normativeness as a presupposition
5. How much theology is there in the New Testament?
6. Overbeck's thesis against New Testament theology
a. Scientific knowledge
b. Apologetic theology
c. Liberal theology
d. Critical theology
e. Christianity - dead?
7. Conclusion
Chapter Two: Early Christianity and Its Writings
1. The historian and his sources
2. "Heresy" earlier than "orthodoxy"? (Walter Bauer's thesis)
a. Edessa, Mesopotamia
b. Egypt
c. Asia Minor
d. Rome
e. Why so few heretical writings?
3. Were the Synoptic Gospels not known to the Apostolic Fathers? (Helmut Koester's thesis)
a. Introductory formulae
b. The "Lord" as authority
c. When did e?a??????? first refer to a written Gospel?
d. Written Gospel(s) other than our Synoptics
e. Other examples for the "dissimilarity test"
f. "Changes"
4. "Trajectories"
a. Controversies in early Christianity
aa) General affirmations
bb) A criterion
cc) Palestine
dd) Edessa
ee) Countries around the Aegean Sea
b. The diversity of Gospel forms
c. The diversity of credal formulations
d. Koester's conclusions of the 1971 volume of essays
5. The Bauer Thesis re-examined
a. Method
b. Places not suitable for the Bauer Thesis
c. The best test case: Ephesus
6. Conclusion
Chapter Three: Can the Canon Be Justified?
1. Introductory remarks
a. On methodology
b. On the discussion of Theodor Zahn's contribution
2. Is the canon a late decision of the church?
3. Some aspects of the history of the New Testament canon
a. The difficulty of reconstruction
b. From later to earlier sources
c. The role of Marcion in the history of the canon
4. On the reasons behind the canonical process
5. The role of the Old Testament in the formation of the New Testament canon
a. The Old Testament quoted in the New Testament
b. Problems concerning the canonisation process of the Old Testament
aa) The problem of "Jabne"
bb) "Zusammen-Denken" before "canonisation"
cc) Authority and canon
dd) Early canonisation of the Old Testament?
6. Excursus: The status of the Temple Scroll
7. From authoritative writings to canon
a. The "hidden" writings
aa) "Secrets" in Qumran
bb) Fourth Ezra
b. The sacred writings of the "heretics"
c. Writing with authority
aa) The significance of "writing"
bb) The records of the words and deeds of Jesus
cc) Apostolic authority
dd) Apostolic letters
ee) Objections
8. Some examples of the "canonical process"
a. Early authoritative writings
aa) Collections of writings
bb) The adoption of the codex
b. Disputed writings
aa) Hebrews
bb) James, 2Peter
cc) Writings rejected
9. On the genre of the New Testament writings
a. Overbeck on the origins of Patristic literature
b. The Gospel genre
c. The other New Testament genres
aa) Letters
bb) "Acts"
cc) Apocalypses
10. Conclusion
Chapter Four: What Does Theological Diversity Mean for New Testament Theology?
1. Introduction
a. "New Testament"
b. "Theology" defined
c. "Theology" as expressing unity of views
2. Development in early Christianity
a. F.C. Baur's thesis
aa) Building on the consensus of his day
bb) Method and structure
cc) From opposition to harmonisation of "Lehrbegriffe"
dd) Criticism of Baur's "picture" of early Christianity
b. The problem of the dating of the New Testament writings
aa) Circular arguments
bb) Baur's dating of New Testament writings
c. "The Proclaimer became the Proclaimed"
aa) H.J. Holtzmann
bb) Alfred Loisy
cc) Rudolf Bultmann
d. An exegetical excursus: Acts 2,36
aa) The origin of the term "Lord"
bb) The term "Messiah"
cc) The term "made"
dd) Towards a solution
e. Summary
3. Jesus and Paul
a. Loisy on the relationship between Jesus and Paul
b. The thesis of Johannes Weiss
c. Eberhard Jüngel's contribution
4. Should the teaching of Jesus be part of New Testament theology?
a. Bultmann's statement
b. An inconsistency in F.C. Baur's work
c. Hans Conzelmann
d. Some earlier works: Wrede, Holtzmann
e. Some recent contributions: Jeremias, Käsemann, Goppelt, Morgan
aa) Joachim Jeremias
bb) Ernst Käsemann
cc) Leonhard Goppelt
dd) Robert Morgan
5. The thesis of contradictory theologies in the New Testament writings
a. Käsemann's points
aa) The explications of Jesus' "sonship"
bb) Gospels criticising traditions
cc) Variations in the kerygma
dd) Paul and James
ee) Acts and Galatians
ff) Eschatology
gg) Early Catholicism
b. Herbert Braun's arguments
aa) The teaching about the law
bb) Eschatology
cc) The teaching on church and offices
dd) Christology
ee) The sacraments
ff) Braun's summarising point
c. On the relationship between "law and gospel" (with an excursus on Eph 2,15)
aa) Excursus: Eph 2,15
bb) Rom 10,4
d. Lack of contradiction
e. On the contradiction between Paul and James concerning the theme of "faith and works"
6. Is there a centre to the New Testament?
a. Hasel's survey
b. Reumann's summary
c. The contributions of Cullmann, Dunn and Thüsing
d. Conclusions from the survey
7. Did the early Christians share a "creed"?
a. Problems
b. Methodology
c. The thesis concerning a development of credal elements
d. An argument from the "external evidence"
8. Conclusion
Chapter Five: The Main Characteristics of the Enterprise
1. Defining the enterprise
2. A historical, descriptive enterprise
3. Is faith a requirement for carrying out the enterprise?
4. For and in the church only?
5. The need to clarify one's presuppositions
6. The focus of the study
7. How much material should be discussed?
8. The "canonical approach" of B.S. Childs
a. Final form
b. Religious community
c. Descriptive task?
d. "Canon within the canon"
e. Text
f. The Bible as witness
g. The Bible's subject matter
h. Two testaments in one canon
9. Robert Morgan on biblical interpretation
a. On historical work
b. Theological interpretation
c. Theory of religion
d. Literary framework
e. Social sciences
10. Hans Hübner's "prolegomena"
a. Whose theology?
b. Theology and/or theological reflection in the Bible
c. Biblical theology
d. The reception of the Old Testament in the New Testament
e. Proclaimed word and written word
f. Revelation
11. Peter Stuhlmacher's major proposals
a. Method gained from the New Testament
b. Claim of revelation
c. Biblical theology of the New Testament
d. Relation to systematic theology
12. Conclusion
Conclusion
1. "Theology"
2. "New Testament"
Bibliography
Index of Authors
Index of References
Index of Subjects

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