Toward the Renewal of New Testament Christology
The study of NT Christology will be renewed if it recovers its proper subject-matter - christology - and its proper scope, the New Testament.The scholarly literature shows that what is called NT christology is, by and large, really the history of christological materials and motifs in early Christia...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1986
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New Testament studies
Year: 1986, Volume: 32, Issue: 3, Pages: 362-377 |
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| Summary: | The study of NT Christology will be renewed if it recovers its proper subject-matter - christology - and its proper scope, the New Testament.The scholarly literature shows that what is called NT christology is, by and large, really the history of christological materials and motifs in early Christianity, and their ancestry. This massive preoccupation with history has, to be sure, produced impressive results. In fact, today it is difficult to imagine a study of NT christology which is not influenced by this historical analysis of early Christian conceptions of Christ and their antecedents. Nevertheless, the time is at hand to take up again what was set aside - an explicitly theological approach to NT christology, one which will be in-formed by the history of ideas but which will deliberately pursue christology as a theological discipline. It is doubtful whether the study of NT christology can be renewed in any other way. This essay intends to illumine and substantiate this claim by considering briefly the nature of christology, then by reviewing the turn to history and its consequences for the study of NT christology, and finally by sketching elements of an alternative. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-8145 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: New Testament studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S002868850001362X |