Showing posts with label History: 'dialectical' understanding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History: 'dialectical' understanding. Show all posts
Saturday, 9 October 2010

"Ontological thirst": my new favourite phrase

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While perusing the fascinating collection of essays contained i n Resurrection: Theological and Scientific Assessments , I came across what ...
Monday, 13 September 2010

An Abstract of my doctoral thesis on Ps 24

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The following is an abstract of my doctoral thesis on Ps 24 which Susan Gillingham has kindly offered to publish at the forthcoming Oxford C...
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Saturday, 12 June 2010

Thread summary: The dialectical nature of Biblical history

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The following posts constitute the final leg of my "mega-thread" on theological interpretation. 1. The significance of history for...
Thursday, 3 June 2010

Doing exegetical justice to Israel's view of history

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Brevard Childs claims that the Biblical view of history is constituted by a dialectical tension between empirical history and God's uni...
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Tuesday, 25 May 2010

Childs on the "dialectical" nature of the Biblical view of history

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In his overview of the Christian exegetical tradition , Brevard Childs notes that an intense interest in the nature of history has been an e...
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Wednesday, 14 April 2010

Quote of the Day: The significance of history for the Bible

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Today's post is a quote from my favourite Old Testament scholar, Brevard Childs, on the significance of "history" for the Bibl...
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Tuesday, 3 February 2009

'Historicity' at the core of the Gospel?

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the Bible makes numerous claims - explicitly and implicitly - concerning the factuality of the events it records. At that most fundamental l...
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Monday, 29 September 2008

Quote of the day: Revelation in law and history

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[I]n the Old Testament God reveals himself neither in history nor in law in some general sense, but in his special covenantal history with I...
Monday, 25 August 2008

Incarnation and Childs' subtle dialectic

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The dialectic is in the relationship between historical-criticism of the Bible and the Bible as witness to God. Childs explains it this way:...
Wednesday, 7 May 2008

[1] Historicity and the Bible: What Kinds of Proposals are Theologically Valid?

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In a recent post , I illustrated what Brevard Childs means when he talks about the “integrity” of the final form of the text. The final form...
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Wednesday, 12 September 2007

Faithful and Critical Scholarship : Interpretation Within Boundaries

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A Christian's relation to the world of time and space is not particularly straight forward. On the one had, the logic of his faith deman...
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Tuesday, 11 September 2007

Religious Archaeology: A Theological Quandary

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In a recent post Jim West commented on the religious rhetoric being used in the Christian Zionist magazine 'Israel Today' to protest...
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