Beyond Biblical theology : sacralized culturalism in Heikki Räisänen's hermeneutics / by Timo Eskola.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eskola, Timo.

Series:

Biblical interpretation series ; v. 123.

Biblical interpretation series, 0928-0731 ; VOLUME 123

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. New Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc--History.

Bible.

Bible. New Testament.

History.

Räisänen, Heikki.

Bible. New Testament--Hermeneutics--History.

Hermeneutics.

Local Subjects:

Räisänen, Heikki.

Physical Description:

xii, 481 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Summary:

Reading Heikki Räisänen's hermeneutics in context, Timo Eskola explores the development of Western New Testament interpretation. Reclaiming a Wredean approach to the Scriptures, Räisänen focuses on tradition and interpretation. He builds on Weberian sociology, adopted through Peter Berger's theories, and substitutes sacralized culturalism for biblical theology. After examining fourteenth century Quran-criticism and its impact on Reimarus, Eskola discusses the genesis of the revised history-of-religion theory that Räisänen developed when investigating the Quran's relationship to the Bible. Sociology then becomes a link between standard historicism and poststructuralism as Räisänen reinterprets Berger's sociology of knowledge. Räisänen's sacralized culturalism finally becomes the theory from which his magnum opus The Rise of Christian Beliefs has been written. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 From Riccoldo to Reimarus to Räisänen 11

1.1 The Significance of Fourteenth Century Quran-criticism 11

1.2 Reimarus, the Quran, and the Criterion of Dissimilarity 19

1.3 Quran Criticism, Sachkritik, and the Birth of Liberal Theology 29

1.4 Räisänen's Use of Riccoldo's and Reimarus' Principles 34

1.5 Contribution to Contemporary Discussion 41

2 A Panorama of Natural Theology: The Chain of Interpretation 45

2.1 German Historicism and "Fair Play" in Historical Research 45

2.2 Laying the Foundation: On the Authority of the Bible 64

2.3 Quran Criticism's Significance for the Chain of Interpretation 78

2.4 Natural Theology and the Problem of "Experience" 82

2.5 Contribution to Contemporary Discussion II 89

3 In the Shadow of Weber: Religion as Culture-Culture as Religion 102

3.1 Weber on the Sociology of Religion 102

3.2 Berger and the Genesis of the Sociology of Knowledge 109

3.3 Sacred Canopy: Symbolic Universe as Superstructure 116

3.4 Core Experience: Solving the Problem of Historicism 123

3.5 On the Paradoxicality of Sociological Structuralism 132

3.6 A Case Study: A Psychosocial Reading of Paul 139

3.7 Contribution to Contemporary Discussion III 146

4 It is All Signs: Reading Poststructuralism 156

4.1 Räisänen and the Linguistic Turn: Against Logocentricism 156

4.2 Paul de Man and the Problem of Metalanguage 168

4.3 From Deconstruction to Death-of-God Theology 172

4.4 Principles of an a/Theology 177

4.5 Questioning the System of Psychological Terrorism 185

4.6 Contribution to Contemporary Discussion TV 191

5 Räisänen's Wolfenbüttelian Turn: Dissolving the Old Systema 199

5.1 The Disillusionment of Eschatology 199

5.2 The Decline of Dogmatics: Anthropology, the Conception of Sin, and Judgment 204

5.3 God, the Problem of Theodicy, and Predestination Theology 208

5.4 Reinterpreting the Principles of Religion: Christology, Atonement, and Salvation 215

5.5 Confessions as Poetry: on the Way to Universalism 220

5.6 Contribution to Contemporary Discussion V 228

6 The Debate over New Testament Theology 235

6.1 Reading Gabler 235

6.2 From Stendahl to Barr: What Does it "Mean?" 248

6.3 The Flow of Existentialist Theology 254

6.4 The Resuscitation of Biblical Theology 267

6.5 On Narrative Theology 280

6.6 History-of-Religion Approach: The Legacy of Wrede 285

6.7 Contribution to Contemporary Discussion VI 296

7 A Chain of Interpretation or a Semiotic Cathedral? 318

7.1 Encountering Theissen's Semiotic Theory 318

7.2 On Denning Semiotics 321

7.3 Consulting Geertz 328

7.4 Wittgenstein, Lindbeck, and Theissen 331

7.5 Between Semiotic Unity and Ecstatic Pluralism 336

7.6 Contribution to Contemporary Discussion VII 339

8 The Rise of Christian Beliefs 347

8.1 Choosing between Poststructuralism and Historicism 348

8.2 The Rise and Decline of Eschatology 356

8.3 On the Human Condition 361

8.4 Dissolving Christology 369

8.5 Against Doctrine 377

8.6 Contribution to Contemporary Discussion VIII 385

9 From Quran Criticism to Sociological Reductionism 392

9.1 Reinterpreting Reimarus: The Essence of Religion 392

9.2 Significance of the Weberian Metanarrative 399

9.3 Räisänen's Solution: Sacralized Culturalism 408

9.4 Colliding with the Postmodern 412

9.5 The Fall of Christian Belief 426

10 Conclusion: Chains of Interpretation 445.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-472) and index.

ISBN:

9789004256927

900425692X

OCLC:

858080299