The New Testament and intellectual humility
This study examines how the New Testament scriptures might form and foster intellectual humility within Christian communities. It is informed by recent interdisciplinary interest in intellectual humility, and concerned to appreciate the distinctive representations of the virtue offered by the New Te...
| Summary: | This study examines how the New Testament scriptures might form and foster intellectual humility within Christian communities. It is informed by recent interdisciplinary interest in intellectual humility, and concerned to appreciate the distinctive representations of the virtue offered by the New Testament writers on their own terms. Cover -- The New Testament and Intellectual Humility -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction: The New Testament and Intellectual Humility -- THE CHARACTER AND GOALS OF THE PRESENT CONTRIBUTION: A CONSTRUCTIVE THEOLOGY -- A PRELIMINARY SUMMARY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT CONTRIBUTION -- CONTEXTUALIZING THE RECENT INTEREST IN INTELLECTUAL HUMILITY -- From Virtue Ethics to Virtue Epistemology -- Towards an Account of Intellectual Humility: Roberts and Wood -- The Broadening of Interest in Intellectual Humility -- DEBATES AND DEFICIENCIES IN THE CURRENT DISCUSSION OF INTELLECTUAL HUMILITY -- OUTLINING THE STUDY: TOWARDS AN ACCOUNT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT AND INTELLECTUAL HUMILITY -- Part I: Concepts -- 1: Virtue, Selfhood, and Intellectual Humility -- ALASDAIR MacINTYRE AND THE REASSESSMENT OF VIRTUE -- VIRTUE AND RECENT THEOLOGICAL ETHICS -- PROBLEMATIZING 'VIRTUE': HEARING AND ACCOMMODATING LUTHER'S CHALLENGE -- VIRTUE AND CHARACTER IN RECENT BIBLICAL STUDIES -- CONCLUSIONS: TOWARDS A CHRISTIAN ACCOUNT OF INTELLECTUAL VIRTUE -- 2: Humility in the Old Testament -- HUMILITY: THE LEXICAL EVIDENCE -- Verbs of Humility -- Nouns and Adjectives of Humility -- MOSES: THE HUMBLE MAN -- HUMILITY AND CREATURELINESS -- CONCLUSIONS -- 3: Sketching the Christian Self in the New Testament Writings -- PREAMBLE: 'THE SELF' IN MODERNITY -- THE PAULINE EPISTLES -- THE JOHANNINE LITERATURE -- TRACING THE ELEMENTS OF IDENTITY IN THE WIDER NEW TESTAMENT -- Revelation -- The Synoptic Gospels and the Book of Acts -- The Disputed Pauline Letters -- CONCLUSIONS -- 4: 'The Old Has Gone, the New Has Come': The Apocalyptic Character of the New Testament and its Relevance to Intellectual Humility -- THE APOCALYPTIC PAUL AND THEOLOGICAL DEBATES ABOUT THE NEW TESTAMENT -- PAUL AND THE APOCALYPSE OF JESUS CHRIST -- THE EFFECTIVE REALITY OF SIN. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (281 pages) |
| ISBN: | 0192560441 |