Scripture and Theology
Description
The academic disciplines of Biblical Studies and Systematic Theology were long closely linked to one another. However, in the modern period they became gradually separated which led to increasing subject specialization, but also to a lamentable lacuna within the various branches of Divinity. As the lack of dialogue between Biblical Studies and the various theological disciplines increased, a minority-group of scholars in the past few decades reacted and sought to re-establish the time-honoured bonds between the disciplines. The present volume is part of this intellectual response, with contributions from scholars of various professional and denominational backgrounds. Together, the book's 25 chapters seek to reinvigorate the crucial cross-disciplinary dialogue, involving biblical, narrative, historical, systematic-theological and philosophic-theological perspectives. The book opens the horizon to contemporary research, and fills a lamentable research gap with a number of fresh contributions from scholars in the respective sub-disciplines
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T. Bokedal, University of Aberdeen, UK, L. Jansen, Universität Rostock, and M. Borowski, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword
- Scripture and Theology in Context: An Introduction
- Part 1: Scripture and the Web of Meanings
- An Anthropological Analysis of Ezekiel 13:17-21
- Messiahs and Redeemer Figures in Postexilic Texts
- Early Divine Christology: Scripture, Narrativity and Confession in Luke-Acts
- Why is the New Testament Called "New Testament"?
- Disassembling Provenance: Origin Stories and Why They Matter for Scripture
- Part 2: The Bible at Work: Historical Case Studies
- Power Dynamics in the Preached Word: A Fourth Century Case Study
- Augustine without a Theodicy of a Condemning God
- Philosophy in Aquinas' Exegetical Work and Its Meta-Theological Implications
- Hamann between Luther and Hume
- Let Everything that Hath Breath Praise the Lord
- The Divine Forwards: Karl Barth's Early Exegesis of the Pauline Epistles
- Karl Rahner's Use of the Bible
- Part 3: Informing Theological Discourse: Systematic Perspectives
- Canonical Theology, Social Location and the Search for Global Theological Method
- Quadriga without Platonism
- Reinventing the Quadriga
- The Theological Art of Scriptural Interpretation: Lessons from von Balthasar
- The Holy Scriptures as a Recognition- and Witnessing-Authority
- The Relationship of Scripture and Tradition in the Light of God's Revelation
- Deriving Theology from Scripture
- List of Contributors
