Normativity of the Future

by Bieringer, Reimund; Elsbernd, Mary; Garthwaite, Susan M.; Ibita, Marilou S.; Pollefeyt, Didier

• ISBN13: 9789042922273
• ISBN10: 9042922273
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-26
• Publisher: Peeters Pub & Booksellers

Summary

One of the major issues of contemporary theology is the relationship between the past and the present. Many see the task of theology as the re-interpretation of past traditions for today. This focus pays scant attention to the future. In recent years theological inquiry into the future and eschatology is surfacing. In the past ten years we have developed an eschatological hermeneutics for the interpretation of biblical and other authoritative texts. This hermeneutical approach integrates the past, present and future dimensions of the interpretive process paying special attention to the future. The first part of this book consists of three foundational articles by Reimund Bieringer and Mary Elsbernd about the approach which we have come to call "normativity of the future". In this part we provide the theoretical foundations of this eschatological hermeneutics. The second part of this book contains contributions by Reimund Bieringer, Mary Elsbernd, Susan M. Garthwaite, Ma. Marilou Ibita, Didier Pollefeyt, Rolando Tuazon and Thomas A. Vollmer who practice this approach in the arenas of Biblical Exegesis, Ethics, and Religious Education.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
Acknowledgements	p. vii
The Theory of the "Normativity of the Future" Approach
Introduction: The "Normativity of the Future" Approach: Its Roots, Development, Current State and Challenges	p. 3
The Normativity of the Future: The Authority of the Bible for Theology (1996, 1997)	p. 27
Interpreting the Signs of the Times in the Light of the Gospel: Vision and Normativity of the Future (2004, 2007)	p. 47
Texts That Create a Future: The Function of Ancient Texts for Theology Today (2007, 2010)	p. 91
The Practice of the "Normativity of the Future" Approach
Normativity of the Future and Biblical Exegesis
Open to Both Ways...? Anti-Judaism and Johannine Christology	p. 121
Foot-washing Slaves, a Sick Child, and Signs of God's Dream: A Normativity of the Future Perspective on John 4:43-54	p. 135
Creation and God's Dream: Reading Rom 8:18-27 in a Normativity of the Future Perspective	p. 167
In Search for a Vision of an Inclusive Future for a Hungry and Thirsty World: Rom 14:17 in a Normativity of the Future Perspective	p. 197
Re-Reading the Lord's Supper Story in Corinth (1 Cor 11:17-34): A Normativity of the Future Perspective	p. 239
Normativity of the Future and Ethics
The Ecological Crisis and the Future of Creation	p. 281
Narrating Christian Ethics from the Margins	p. 297
Vision, Context and Transformative Praxis: Reading the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Forty Years Later	p. 327
Normativity of the Future and Religious Education
"Come, and You Will See" (John 1:39): Dialogical Authority and Normativity of the Future in the Fourth Gospel and in Religious Education	p. 361
The Role of the Bible in Religious Education Reconsidered: Risks and Challenges in Teaching the Bible	p. 377
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