Download or read book Hermeneutics Contingency and the Quest for Transcontextual Criteria in Christology written by Mark L. Y. Chan and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an exercise in theological prolegomenon, this thesis develops a hermeneutical approach to Christology which takes into serious account the temporal nature of knowledge. It seeks a Christology beyond the objectivism of timeless truth and the relativism of absolutized contextuality. It takes as its departure, a historico- eschatological framework grounded in a concept of divine transcendental immanence in history. God's revelatory and redemptive activity in universal history, centering in Jesus Christ, forms the backdrop for the argument that the truth of Christology is both historically mediated and transcendental. In line with this theological view of historicity, two related models of Christology are proposed: Christology from within and Christology from ahead. The former is explicated in the dual sense of Christology arising necessarily from within tradition and experience, while the latter in the eschatological sense of proleptic fulfilment. The arguments for these are developed in dialogue with five key thinkers whose insights contribute to different aspects of the project. Ernst Troeltsch's struggle with contingency crystalizes the challenge of historicism, and serves as the foil against which a Christology beyond objectivism and relativism takes shape. Hans-Georg Gadamer's hermeneutical rehabilitation of tradition, and Friedrich Schleiermacher's experiential approach to theology together provide resources for a Christology from within tradition and experience respectively. Central to our argument for a Christologyfiom ahead is Wolfhart Pannenberg's notion of proleptic fulfilment. The thesis ends with the hermeneutical Christology of the apostle Paul, in whose thought we find elements of both Christology from within and from ahead. This thesis contends that the convergence of critical traditionality, experiential appropriation and eschatological prolepsis constitute a hermeneutical approach to Christology which allows it to transcend the subject-object dualism of Cartesianism. Such an approach enables Christology to respond to the challenge of contingency without defaulting on its claim to universal or transcontextual referentiality.
Download or read book Christology From Within and Ahead written by Mark Chan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Troeltsch's struggle with historicism sets the stage for a proposal that Christology be done from within and from ahead. Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics and Schleiermacher's experiential theology inform a Christology from within that is rooted in tradition and experience, while Pannenberg's notion of proleptic eschatological fulfilment serves as resource for a Christology from ahead. This volume develops a hermeneutical Christology that takes into account the historical contingency of knowledge, and seeks a Christology beyond the objectivism of timeless truth and the relativism of absolutised contextuality. The book is concluded with an examination of the convergence of critical traditionality, experiential appropriation and eschatological prolepsis in the Christology of the apostle Paul. The author explores how Christology might respond to the scandal of universality in postmodernity without defaulting on its claim to transcontextual referentiality.
Download or read book Evangelical Theology written by Michael F. Bird and published by Zondervan Academic. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 1067 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evangelical Theology is a systematic theology written from the perspective of a biblical scholar. Michael F. Bird contends that the center, unity, and boundary of the evangelical faith is the evangel (= gospel), as opposed to things like justification by faith or inerrancy. The evangel is the unifying thread in evangelical theology and the theological hermeneutic through which the various loci of theology need to be understood. Using the gospel as a theological leitmotif—an approach to Christian doctrine that begins with the gospel and sees each loci through the lens of the gospel—this text presents an authentically evangelical theology, as opposed to an ordinary systematic theology written by an evangelical theologian. According to the author, theology is the drama of gospelizing—performing and living out the gospel in the theatre of Christian life. The text features tables, sidebars, and questions for discussion. The end of every part includes a “What to Take Home” section that gives students a run-down on what they need to know. And since reading theology can often be dry and cerebral, the author applies his unique sense of humor in occasional “Comic Belief” sections so that students may enjoy their learning experience through some theological humor added for good measure.
Download or read book The Hermeneutics of Doctrine written by Anthony C. Thiselton and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2007-11-08 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the book Thiselton shows how perspectives that arise from hermeneutics shed fresh light on theological method, reshape horizons of understanding, and reveal the relevance of doctrine for formation and for life. --
Download or read book Hermeneutics of Doctrine in a Learning Church written by Gregory A. Ryan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hermeneutics of Doctrine in a Learning Church, Gregory Ryan offers an account of the dynamic, multi-dimensional task of interpreting Christian tradition, with reference to doctrinal hermeneutics, Receptive Ecumenism, and the ‘pastorality of doctrine’ seen in Pope Francis.
Download or read book The German Roots of Nineteenth Century American Theology written by Annette G. Aubert and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the influences of German theology on Emanuel Gerhart and Charles Hodge, two Reformed theologians who addressed questions concerning method and atonement theology in light of modernism and new scientific theories.
Download or read book Christologies Cultures and Religions written by and published by OMF Literature. This book was released on with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at the First Theological Forum of Mindanao (2014) Inter-religious and inter-cultural perspectives on how we view and understand Christ. Contributors: Victor Aguilan Herbert T. Ale Mariano C. Apilado Pascal D. Bazzell Lee Joseph Custodio José M. de Mesa Edgar B. Ebojo Eleazar S. Fernandez (Foreword) Omar Abu Khalil Melba P. Maggay (Epilogue) Muriel Orevillo-Montenegro Aldrin M. Peñamora Brian Powell Chiu Eng Tan Rico Villanueva Emo Yango
Download or read book A New Hope written by Stephen Lakkis and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theology and historiography often see the future as a realm open to new experiences and unexpected events. Yet for classical physics, the future was the result of the universe’s predictable development. Given enough information about current states, we could use the laws of nature to uncover the universe’s future. Modern space-time theory, with its picture of an invariant four-dimensional universe, only makes this problem more acute. Room for radically novel events, for miracles and new hope seems to have disappeared. It is this hope for something new that the German theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg seeks to preserve in his controversial work on time. To defend God’s supernatural freedoms and to escape natural determinism, Pannenberg invokes a medieval understanding of the unsurpassable and absolute power of God, using God’s potentia absoluta to reverse time’s flow and express absolute authority over creation’s progress. Time and all its contents are utterly subjected under the free will of a divine “all-determining reality”. But is this tenable for modern understandings of God and the universe? Or does it lead to theological difficulties and promote an arms race between the laws of nature and the rule of God? In this volume, Stephen Lakkis offers an analysis and critique of Pannenberg’s approach and suggests a different way forward.
Download or read book History and Interpretation in New Testament Perspective written by E. Earle Ellis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After sketching the history of modern criticism, this work examines the dating of New Testament books and their techniques of biblical citation, Paul's mission to Spain, the hypothesis of 'innocent' apostolic pseudepigrapha, and the use of preformed traditions in Paul's christology.
Download or read book Contextual Biblical Hermeneutics as Multicentric Dialogue written by Chin Ming Stephen Lim and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the author offers a proposed contextual biblical hermeneutic that takes into account the epistemic terrain of a particular geopolitically defined context and applies it through a multicentric dialogue to reading the stories in Daniel in Singapore.
Download or read book Mapping Gender in Ancient Religious Discourses written by Todd C. Penner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays on early Christian, Jewish and Greco-Roman religious discourses in antiquity, focusing on the construction of gender in relationship to broader cultural and religious themes, argumentation and identity formation in the early centuries of the common era.
Download or read book Hearing Mark s Endings written by Bridget Gilfillan Upton and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new, aurally attuned reading of the endings of Mark’s Gospel, concentrating on the Gospel as ancient popular literature, comparing it with Xenophon of Ephesus’ erotic romance, and using speech act theory as a method to illuminate both narratives.
Download or read book The Body Royal written by Mark W. Hamilton and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book rethinks the problem of Israelite kingship by examining how the male royal body and its self-presentation figured in the governance of the dual monarchies of Israel and Judah. As such, this is a reopening of old questions and an opening to new ones.
Download or read book One Text Thousand Methods written by Patrick Chatelion Counet and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this essay collection, the authors describe the trend toward synchronic methods in biblical exegesis, or interpreting biblical texts as the result of a literary rather than a historical process, and discuss and apply fifteen specific methods to interpreting Old and New Testament texts.
Download or read book An Anomalous Jew written by Bird and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lively, well-informed portrait of the complex figure who was the apostle Paul Though Paul is often lauded as the first great Christian theologian and a champion for Gentile inclusion in the church, in his own time he was universally regarded as a strange and controversial person. In this book Pauline scholar Michael Bird explains why. An Anomalous Jew presents the figure of Paul in all his complexity with his blend of common and controversial Jewish beliefs and a faith in Christ that brought him into conflict with the socio-religious scene around him. Bird elucidates how the apostle Paul was variously perceived -- as a religious deviant by Jews, as a divisive figure by Jewish Christians, as a purveyor of dubious philosophy by Greeks, and as a dangerous troublemaker by the Romans. Readers of this book will better understand the truly anomalous shape of Paul's thinking and worldview.
Download or read book Truth and Subjectivity Faith and History written by Varughese John and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is truth? Philosophical explorations have merely presupposed truth, rather than define it. The inscrutable nature of truth is a recognition of human finitude, which is both Socratic (the recognition that one does not know) and non-Socratic (the recognition that truth has to be given from without). This opens the way to locating truth outside the individual, which can be appropriated only when the condition to recognize it is given. For Kierkegaard, the incarnation of Christ is the point when both revelation and the condition to recognize it, are given. However, incarnation, being historical, raises the question of objectivity and evidence. This book explores what truth implies for the individual and examines the value of historical research for Christian faith.
Download or read book Joel s Use of Scripture And the Scripture s Use of Joel written by John Strazicich and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work focuses on the appropriation and resignification of scripture in Joel and its NT "Nachleben," where Israel's literature functions as "an authoritative medium of refraction," The purpose is to recover the canon's unrecorded hermeneutics at the intersection of both diachronic and synchronic textual surfaces.
