Beyond New Testament Theology

by Raisanen, Heikki

• ISBN13: 9780334027805
• ISBN10: 0334027802
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: Scm Pr

Summary

Survey of developments over the last two hundred years and a programme for the future. Second edition.

Author Biography

Heikki Raisanen is Professor of New Testament Exegesis at the University of Helsinki.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition	xiii
Preface to the First Edition	xv
Introduction	1	(10)
PART ONE: FROM GABLER TO WREDE
The Dual Programme of Biblical Theology	11	(3)
J. P. Gabler
Towards a Historical New Testament Theology	14	(7)
Divorcing theology from history	14	(2)
D. F. Strauss
History as revelation	16	(2)
F. C. Baur
The liberal classic	18	(3)
H. J. Holtzmann
The History-of-Religions Programme of Earliest Christianity	21	(19)
Farewell to theology	21	(6)
W. Wrede
A youthful break with dogmas	27	(1)
P. Wernle
The history of religions as preparation for Jesus	28	(2)
H. Weinel
A history of faith in Christ	30	(1)
W. Bousset
Futuristic eschatology versus timeless religion	31	(2)
J. Weiss
Reactions against the history of religions	33	(4)
A. Schlatter
P. Feine
A mature synthesis ignored	37	(3)
J. Kaftan
Summary and Prospect	40	(5)
PART TWO: FROM WREDE TO THE 1980S
New Testament Theology and the Breakthrough of Neo-Orthodoxy	45	(9)
Theology in the name of Paul	45	(1)
K. Barth
Dispute over the real message	46	(1)
K. Barth
R. Bultmann
The existentialist self-understanding of Paul and John	47	(7)
R. Bultmann
In the Shadow of Bultmann: Biblical History as Normative	54	(22)
History of revelation	54	(1)
T. Zhan
F. Buchsel
Apocalyptic dogmatics	55	(2)
E. Stauffer
Between history and theology	57	(4)
E. G. Gulin
F. C. Grant
Taking leave of the Enlightenment	61	(1)
M. Albertz
The history of salvation as a universal remedy	62	(3)
O. Cullmann
The teachings of an Anglican Jesus	65	(1)
A. Richardson
The seed-bed of Catholic doctrine	66	(2)
H. Schlier
R. Schnackenburg
K. H. Schelkle
Three Nordic contributions	68	(5)
H. Riesenfeld
A. T. Nikolainen
R. Kieffer
Evangelical harmonies	73	(3)
G. E. Ladd
D. Guthrie
L. Morris
In the Shadow of Bultmann: Singling out the Normative	76	(14)
The programme of a humanistic theology	76	(3)
H. Braun
Bultmann for a new day	79	(4)
H. Conzelmann
E. Kasemann
E. Lohse
The testimony of the major witnesses	83	(3)
W. G. Kummel
A strained dialogue	86	(4)
L. Goppelt
Keeping Alive the Programme of Separate Tasks	90	(9)
K. Stendahl
J. M. Robinson
R. Morgan
K. Berger
Some Rising Trends	99	(11)
The problem of unity and diversity	99	(4)
J. D. G. Dunn
W. Thusing
Discarding the canon	103	(1)
H. Koester
Exegesis as a science of public information	104	(3)
G. Petzke
E. Schussler Fiorenza
The return of experience	107	(1)
L. T. Johnson
Early Christianity as a Jewish sect	108	(2)
C. Rowland
Conclusion	110	(5)
PART THREE: DEVELOPMENTS IN THE 1990S
Conflicting Voices from the Debate on Principles	115	(5)
Pan-Biblical Theologies	120	(6)
Theological harmonizing	120	(3)
B. S. Childs
P. Stuhlmacher
The reception of the Old Testament in the New	123	(3)
H. Hubner
New Testament Theologies	126	(8)
The theologies of the individual Gospels	126	(1)
A. Weiser
Theology that burns with passion	126	(3)
G. B. Caird
N. T. Wright
A Lutheran handbook	129	(2)
G. Strecker
An ecumenical summary by a Roman Catholic	131	(3)
J. Gnilka
Histories of Early Christian Theology	134	(8)
A tree with thousand ramifications	134	(2)
K. Berger
Bold reconstructions	136	(2)
W. Schmithals
Sceptical humanizing	138	(2)
H. M. Teeple
Peter versus Paul	140	(1)
M. D. Goulder
In the beginning was chaos	140	(2)
F. Vouga
A Semiotic Cathedral	142	(5)
G. Theissen
Summary	147	(4)
PART FOUR: OUTLINE OF A PROGRAMME
Historical Interpretation: Principles	151	(38)
The addressees	151	(5)
Proclamation or information?	156	(4)
The New Testament or early Christianity?	160	(2)
The relevance of the `history of influence'	162	(2)
Religion or religious thought?	164	(2)
Purely historical?	166	(5)
The challenge of new approaches	171	(5)
The attitude of the scholar	176	(3)
The prehistory and finishing line of early Christian thought	179	(2)
Finished products and earlier stages	181	(1)
Historical or thematic structure?	182	(3)
Where to start?	185	(1)
Some relevant emphases in recent research	186	(1)
Conclusion	187	(2)
Historical Interpretation: A Model	189	(14)
The dialectic between tradition, experience and interpretation	189	(2)
A comparison with the model of Wilfred Cantwell Smith	191	(1)
A comparison with the model of Peter Berger	192	(2)
The symbolic universe and its influence on experience	194	(1)
The impact of experience(s)	195	(1)
The relevance of tradition: examples	196	(1)
The impact of experience: examples	197	(3)
Conclusion	200	(1)
On the problem of reductionism	201	(2)
Contemporizing Interpretation	203	(7)
Bibliography	210	(19)
Notes	229	(55)
Index of Modern Authors	284