Christian theology emerged by way of a Kuhnian Paradigm Shift
This paper argues that, historically, Christianity emerges out of Judaism by way of a paradigm shift in Thomas Kuhn's sense of the word and that this emergence has normative consequences regarding the legitimacy of Christianity. Paradigm shifts are characterized by observational anomalies (e.g....
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2018
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International journal of philosophy and theology
Year: 2018, Volume: 79, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 178-193 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Christianity
/ Judaism
/ Resurrection
/ Paradigm shift
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| IxTheo Classification: | BH Judaism CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations HC New Testament NBF Christology |
| Further subjects: | B
Christian relation / Jewish
B John Hick B Resurrection B Christology B Wolfhart Pannenberg B Rudolf Bultmann B Gerhard Ebeling B Historical Jesus B Paradigm Shift B Messiah B Ingolf Dalferth B Prophecy |
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| Summary: | This paper argues that, historically, Christianity emerges out of Judaism by way of a paradigm shift in Thomas Kuhn's sense of the word and that this emergence has normative consequences regarding the legitimacy of Christianity. Paradigm shifts are characterized by observational anomalies (e.g. Röntgen rays) triggering particular kinds of theoretical modifications, e.g. meaning-changes of key terms, leading to a coherent re-disclosure of reality. The first Christians underwent such a paradigm shift: The anomalous experience that the dead Jesus has risen triggered theoretical modifications - the term "Messiah" underwent a meaning-change - so that reality could be coherently re-disclosed as eschatological reality. If Christianity emerges by way of a paradigm shift, this shift should be the foundation of Christological theorizing: Rather than basing Christology on what the "historical Jesus" did or said, the reconstruction of Jesus as the Christ in the context of this shift is foundational for Christology (in line with Rudolf Bultmann). The resurrection is crucial not as a historical fact but as an anomaly in this sense. Since they acquired their beliefs via a paradigm; shift, the first Christians were entitled to their ways of reading the Jewish Scriptures without, however, the Jews being disentitled to their ways. |
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| ISSN: | 2169-2335 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal of philosophy and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/21692327.2017.1422988 |