Ideology and Exegesis: A Response to Gerald O’Collins
Gerald O’Collins’s insistence that scholars read Paul’s encomium to Christ in Phil 2:6-11 as anticipating later Christian orthodoxy confuses theological apologetics for historical interpretation. His claim that Paul anticipates Nicene Christology is anachronistic, tendentious, and methodologically c...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2022
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| In: |
The expository times
Year: 2022, Volume: 133, Issue: 7, Pages: 275-283 |
| Further subjects: | B
anachronism
B theological orthodoxy B Christology B prepositional metaphysics B Henotheism B conservative Biblical scholarship B Historical Criticism B great angel B Metamorphosis B Teleology |
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| Summary: | Gerald O’Collins’s insistence that scholars read Paul’s encomium to Christ in Phil 2:6-11 as anticipating later Christian orthodoxy confuses theological apologetics for historical interpretation. His claim that Paul anticipates Nicene Christology is anachronistic, tendentious, and methodologically confused. Phil 2:6-11 expresses a Jewish angel Christology, not a teleological foreshadowing of Nicene orthodoxy. A close reading of O’Collins’s essay is instructive at a number of levels. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5308 |
| Reference: | Kommentar zu "Does Philippians 2:6–11 present Christ as a superior angel? (2022)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: The expository times
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/00145246221088367 |
