Christology and Scripture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Edited by Andrew T. Lincoln and Angus Paddison
New Testament theology is a hybrid discipline. This is both a strength and a weakness. It is a strength in that it compels attention to the New Testament as a theological writing, rather than, for example, as merely a literary work or a product of the first-century Roman empire. It is a weakness in...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 60, Issue: 1, Pages: 267-269 |
| Review of: | Christology and scripture. Interdisciplinary perspectives (London : T & T Clark, 2008) (Houlden, Leslie)
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| Summary: | New Testament theology is a hybrid discipline. This is both a strength and a weakness. It is a strength in that it compels attention to the New Testament as a theological writing, rather than, for example, as merely a literary work or a product of the first-century Roman empire. It is a weakness in that it may encourage the reading of the New Testament in anachronistic terms, for example in the light of the later agenda of Christian doctrine of one period or another. Not just that, it has a tendency to de-historicize the New Testament and so to deceive us into supposing that its writers thought much as we think or that we can or should think as they did: it may be more salutary never to lose sight of the chasm between then and now and the impossibility of eradicating it. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flp008 |