Contested issues in Christian origins and the New Testament : collected essays / by Luke Timothy Johnson.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Johnson, Luke Timothy, author.

Series:

• Supplements to Novum Testamentum ; v. 146.
• Supplements to Novum Testamentum, 0167-9732 ; 146

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Jesus Christ.
• Bible. New Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Bible. New Testament.
• Bible. New Testament--Criticism, Narrative.
• Christianity--Origin.
• Jesus Christ--Person and offices--Biblical teaching.
• Jesus Christ--History of doctrines.
• Judaism (Christian theology)--Biblical teaching.
• Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
• Church history.
• Church history--Primitive and early church.
• Judaism (Christian theology).
• Biblical teaching.

Physical Description:

xxii, 745 pages ; 24 cm.

Manufacture:

©2013.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Summary:

In a collection of essays spanning some 35 years, Luke Timothy Johnson takes on some of the most contested issues in the study of Christian Origins and the New Testament - from the historical Jesus and the Jesus of the Gospels, through exegetical studies of Luke-Acts and Paul, to questions pertaining to the development of early Christian history, relations with Judaism, the uses of polemic, sexuality, and law. Johnson's work is characterized by close attention to texts and a concern for methodological rigor. Far from representing scholarly consensus, these essays consistently display independence of judgment, whether concerning the authorship of Paul's disputed letters, the legitimacy of the quest for the historical Jesus, or the toxic character of some early Christian risks. Book jacket.

Contents:

• The humanity of Jesus: what's at stake in the quest for the historical Jesus?
• Learning the human Jesus: historical criticism and literary criticism
• A historiographical response to Wright's Jesus
• The Jesus of the Gospels and philosophy
• Jesus among the philosophers
• Does a theology of the canonical Gospels make sense?
• On finding the Lukan community: a cautious cautionary essay
• The christology of Luke-Acts
• The Lukan kingship parable
• The social dimensions of sōtēria in Luke-Acts and Paul
• Literary criticism of Luke-Acts
• Narrative criticism and translation: the case of the NRSV
• Narrative perspectives on Luke 16:19-31
• Romans 3:21-26 and the faith of Jesus
• Transformation of the mind and moral discernment in Paul
• Life-giving Spirit: the ontological implications of resurrection in 1 Corinthians
• The body in question: the social complexities of resurrection in 1 Corinthians
• Paul's ecclesiology
• 2 Timothy and polemic against false teachers: a re-examination
• Oikonomia theou: the theological voice of 1 Timothy from the perspective of Pauline authorship
• 1 Timothy 1:1-20: the shape of the struggle
• The scriptural world of Hebrews
• Hebrews 10:32-39 and the agony of the translator
• Reading Wisdom wisely
• God ever new, ever the same
• John and Thomas in context
• Koinonia: diversity and unity in early Christianity
• The New Testament's anti-Jewish slander and the conventions of ancient polemic
• Anti-Judaism and the New Testament
• Religious rights and Christian texts
• Proselytism and witness in earliest Christianity
• The Bible after the Holocaust: a response to Emil Fackenheim
• Law in early Christianity
• The complex witness of the New Testament concerning marriage, family, and sexuality
• Making connections: the material expression of friendship in the New Testament.

Notes:

• A collection of previously published essays. Original dates of publication range from 1979 to 2012.
• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

• 9789004242906
• 9004242902
• 9789004242982
• 9004242988

OCLC:

814389629