The Bible in modern culture : Baruch Spinoza to Brevard Childs / Roy A. Harrisville & Walter Sundberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harrisville, Roy A.

Contributor:

Sundberg, Walter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc--History--Modern period, 1500-.

Bible.

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 349 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub., 2002.

Summary:

Historical-Critical Method in Biblical Scholarship has been a Pandora's box for the intellectual life of the church. No achievement of modern scholarship has been more effective in understanding the Bible, yet it has also seriously challenged a church trying to preserve the integrity of its cherished theological traditions. In this critically acclaimed book Roy Harrisville and Walter Sundberg trace the development and drama of historical-critical method by surveying the major figures who created and employed it -- from Baruch Spinoza in the seventeenth century to present-day interpreters. This expanded second edition of The Bible in Modern Culture includes three new chapters detailing the work of Adolf Schlatter, Paul Ricoeur, and Brevard Childs.

Contents:

1. The War of the Worldviews 10

I. The Agony of Historical Criticism 10

II. The Precritical Reading of the Bible 13

A. Basic Features 13

B. Martin Luther 14

C. John Calvin 19

III. The Precritical Reading under Threat 21

A. Protestant Scholasticism 21

B. Pietism 23

C. Rationalist Biblical Criticism and Protestant Liberalism 24

IV. The War of the Worldviews 26

2. Baruch Spinoza: The Emergence of Rationalist Biblical Criticism 30

I. From Dogma to Death 30

II. Biography 33

III. The Theological-Political Treatise 36

IV. Assessment 41

A. A New Method 41

B. Enduring Themes 43

3. Hermann Samuel Reimarus: Pressing the Rationalist Attack 46

I. A Pattern of Warfare 46

II. Biography 50

III. The Apology 53

A. Circumstances of Composition 53

B. The System of Jesus and His Disciples 56

IV. Assessment 58

A. The "Historical Head" 58

B. Reason and Prejudice 60

4. Friedrich Schleiermacher: Formation of the Liberal Protestant Tradition 62

I. Is Theology Still Possible? 62

II. Biography 67

III. Christmas Eve: A Dialogue 68

IV. Assessment 70

A. The Fragment Hypothesis 70

B. Universal Hermeneutics 72

C. The Challenge of the Intellectual 73

D. Life-of-Jesus Research 75

E. Concrete Christ or Redeemer Idea? 77

F. An Empty Gibbet 80

5. David Friedrich Strauss: The Bible as Myth 83

I. Faith under Siege 83

II. Biography 88

III. The Life of Jesus 90

IV. Assessment 96

A. Strauss, Hegel, and Baur 96

B. Focus on the Historical 99

C. Reason Is Divine 100

6. Ferdinand Christian Baur: Historical Criticism in the Shadow of Idealism 104

I. Biography 104

II. The Church History 108

A. The Question of Essence and Sources 108

B. Jesus 109

C. The Antithesis 110

D. The Synthesis 112

III. Assessment 115

A. Legacy 115

B. Identifying the Divine and the Human 116

7. Johann Christian Konrad von Hofmann: The Bible as Salvation History 123

I. Pietist Protest against Historical-Critical Method 123

II. Biography 128

III. Interpreting the Bible 128

A. The Occasion 128

B. The "Fact" of Rebirth 130

C. The Task and Method of Theology 131

D. The "Historical Way" 132

E. The "Eternal" Presupposition 136

F. The Relation between the Two Ways 136

IV. Assessment 137

A. The Boehme Connection 137

B. The Unacknowledged Source 140

C. Loose Ends 143

8. Ernst Troeltsch: The Power of Historical Consciousness 146

I. Historicism 146

II. Biography 151

III. The Power of Historical Consciousness 153

A. The Task 153

B. The Method 155

C. The Results 157

D. The Guarantee 162

IV. Assessment 164

9. Adolf Schlatter: Biblical Criticism and the Act of Faith 169

I. Attack upon Christendom 169

II. Biography 174

III. Getting Free 180

IV. Historical Research 184

V. Presuppositions 186

VI. The Great Qualifier 189

VII. Assessment 190

10. J. Gresham Machen: The Fundamentalist Defense 195

I. "We Have No Strauss" 195

II. Biography 204

III. Christianity and Liberalism 206

IV. Assessment 212

11. Rudolf Bultmann: Biblical Scholarship in Crisis and Renewal 217

I. At War with the Worldview 217

A. Contrary Tendencies 217

B. The Advance of Historical-Critical Scholarship 218

C. The Coming of War 220

II. Biography 225

III. New Testament and Theology 228

A. What Is Myth? 228

B. Bultmann and Heidegger 231

C. The Quest for the Historical Jesus 235

IV. Assessment 239

A. Myth and Bultmann 239

B. Bultmann and Heidegger 241

C. The Question of Continuity 243

12. Ernst Kasemann: Biblical Theology under the Cross 249

I. Biography 249

II. Biblical Theology under the Cross 250

A. Bultmann 250

B. Cullmann 256

C. Crux sola nostra theologia 258

D. Christian Existence as the Body of Christ 262

E. Christian Existence as the Cruciform 264

F. Christian Existence as Obedience 264

G. Christian Existence and Politics 266

III. Assessment 268

13. Paul Ricoeur: The Risk of Reading the Bible 271

I. The Secular Challenge 271

II. Biography 276

A. Achievements 276

B. Influences 279

III. The Hermeneutical Interest 281

IV. Critique 283

A. Idealism 283

B. Structuralism 285

C. Historicism 286

D. Existentialism 287

V. Convictions 288

A. The Thing of the Text 288

B. The Function of the Text 289

C. The Wager 290

VI. Exegesis 292

A. Paul and the State 292

B. The Symbolism of Evil 293

C. The Parables 294

VII. Assessment 295

A. Linguistics and Text 295

B. Text over Interpreter 297

C. Text and Author 298

D. Wager and Transcendence 298

E. Bless the Contradiction 301

14. Brevard Childs: Biblical Criticism under the Discipline of the Canon 304

I. The Postmodern Predicament of Academic Biblical Criticism 304

II. Biography 309

III. The Irritant 310

IV. The Prescription 312

A. History and Theology 312

B. Canon as Locus 314

V. Canon and Church 316

VI. Canon and Confession 317

VII. Nothing but the Text 318

VIII. Assessment 320

A. Canon and Encounter with God 320

B. Forebears 322

C. The Misapprehension 324

D. The Question of Method 326

15. Two Traditions of Historical Criticism 329

I. The Nagging Question 329

II. The Enlightenment Tradition 330

III. The Augustinian Tradition 335.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0802839924

OCLC:

49681446