RT Article
T1 Christian theology emerged by way of a Kuhnian Paradigm Shift
JF International journal of philosophy and theology
VO 79
IS 1/2
SP 178
OP 193
A1 Grube, Dirk-Martin 1959-
LA English
PB Taylor & Francis
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1571245766
AB 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.
K1 Christology
K1 Gerhard Ebeling
K1 Historical Jesus
K1 Ingolf Dalferth
K1 Jewish/Christian relation
K1 John Hick
K1 Messiah
K1 Paradigm Shift
K1 Prophecy
K1 Resurrection
K1 Rudolf Bultmann
K1 Wolfhart Pannenberg
DO 10.1080/21692327.2017.1422988