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Theology of the New Testament / Udo Schnelle ; translated by M. Eugene Boring.
Van Pelt Library BS2397 .S4613 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schnelle, Udo.
- Standardized Title:
- Theologie des Neuen Testaments. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. New Testament--Theology.
- Bible.
- Bible. New Testament.
- Theology.
- Physical Description:
- 910 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Academic, [2009]
- Contents:
- Translator's preface
- Author's preface to the German edition
- Approach : theology of the New Testament as meaning-formation
- How history is made and written
- History as meaning-formation
- Understanding through narration
- Structure : history and meaning
- The phenomenon of the beginning
- Theology and the academic study of religion
- Diversity and unity
- New Testament theology as meaning-formation
- Jesus of Nazareth : the near God
- The quest for Jesus
- Beginning : John the Baptist
- Point of departure : the coming of the one God in his kingly power
- Center : the proclamation of the Kingdom of God
- Ethics in the horizon of the Kingdom of God
- Jesus as healer : God's miraculous power
- The imminent judgment : nothing is without its consequences
- Jesus and the law : to will the good
- Jesus's self-understanding : more than a prophet
- Jesus's destiny in Jerusalem : end and beginning
- The first transformation : the emergence of Christology
- Jesus's pre-Easter claim
- The Resurrection appearances
- Experiences of the spirit
- The christological reading of Scripture
- History-of-religions context
- Language and shape of early Christology : myth, titles, formulae, and traditions
- The second transformation : the early Christian mission without the precondition of circumcision
- The Hellenists
- Antioch
- The stance of Paul
- Paul : missionary and thinker
- Theology
- Christology
- Pneumatology
- Soteriology
- Anthropology
- Ethics
- Ecclesiology
- Eschatology
- Setting in the history of early Christian theology
- The third transformation : composition of Gospels as innovative response to crises
- Death of the founders
- Delay of the Parousia
- Destruction of Jerusalem and the earliest Christian congregation
- The rise of the Flavians
- The writing of Gospels as innovative response to crises
- The sayings source, the Synoptic Gospels, and Acts : meaning through narration
- The sayings source as proto-Gospel
- Mark : the way of Jesus
- Matthew : the new and better righteousness
- Luke : salvation and history
- The fourth transformation : the Gospel in the world
- Social, religious, and political developments
- Pseudepigraphy/deuteronymity as a historical, literary, and theological phenomenon
- The Deutero-Pauline Letters : Paul's thought extended
- Colossians : Paul in changing times
- Ephesians : space and time
- Thessalonians : date (of the end) as problem
- The Pastoral Epistles : God's philanthropy
- The Catholic Epistles : voices in dangerous times
- Peter : testing by suffering
- James : acting and being
- Hebrews : the God who speaks
- Jude and 2 Peter : identity through tradition and polemic against heresy
- Johannine theology : introduction to the Christian faith
- Revelation : seeing and understanding.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 773-838) and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780801036040
- 0801036046
- OCLC:
- 311752074
- Publisher Number:
- 99935904228
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