Making Sense of New Testament Theology Modern Problems and Prospects

Name: Making Sense of New Testament Theology Modern Problems and Prospects
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ISBN: 9781597520416

ISBN-10: 1597520411

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Authors: A. K. M. Adam

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Critics have tried to revitalize the discipline of New Testament theology. The results of their labors are often disappointing. A. K. M. Adam suggests the problems many sense in New Testament theology arise from a mismatch of method and goals. That mismatch stems from a preoccupation with modernity as resident in the hallowed halls of regnant historical criticism. We need a hermeneutics of theology, a hermeneutics of hermeneutics. Adam here helps us understand what to keep of the historical-critical perspective when the realization hits that we have been sold a bill of goods that no longer makes good on its promises. In that sense, Adam's book is far more friendly to the historical-critical…

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List price: $31.00
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date: 1/7/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English

A. K. M. Adam served as Professor of New Testament at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, IL.



Editor's Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



A Physiognomy of Modernity


Modernity and Newness


Modernity and Chronology


Modernity and Scientific Legitimation


Modernity versus the Masses



Modern New Testament Theology


Gabler's "Proper Distinction"


Gabler's Modernity


Wrede's sogenannte New Testament Theology


Wrede's Modernity


Stendahl's "Meant/Means" Distinction


Stendahl's Modernity



The Modern Consensus in New Testament Theology


The Moral Necessity of New Testament Theology


The Practical Necessity of New Testament Theology



Modern New Testament Theology under Interrogation


Historical Context or Canonical Context


Fine-Tuning the Historical Project


A Transformative Paradigm for Interpretation


Politics and the Modern Theological Interpreter


"What Krister Stendahl Meant"


On Not Needing to Bridge the Big, Ugly Ditch


Contra Modern New Testament Theology



The Philosophical Erosion of Modernity


Toward a Radical Critique of New Testament Theology's Modernity


The Necessity of History


Noncanonical Interpreters


Disciplines and Autonomy


Time and Determination


Ancients and Moderns


Conclusion



Prospects for Nonmodern New Testament Theology


Making Sense of New Testament Theology


Criteria for Nonmodern New Testament Theology


The Theology of the New Testament in a Nonmodern Key


Conclusion


Bibliography


Index of Names