Biblical Theology : Past, Present, and Future.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. PAST: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS -- The Pure and the True Gabler: Questioning a Received Image in the History of Biblical Theology -- Campegius Vitringa Sr. (1659-1722):A Biblical Theologian at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century -- Ferdinand Christian Baur and Biblical Theology -- Seeing with One Eye: Biblical Interpretation in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- Reality, History, and the Old Testament in the Nineteenth Century1Philip S umpter -- I I. PRESENT: METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR BIBLICAL THEOLOGY NOW -- Biblical Theology in Transition: An Overview of Recent Works, and a Look Ahead at How to Proceed -- Some Ways of "Doing" Biblical Theology: Assessments and a Proposal -- What's the Point of Biblical Theology?" Reflections Prompted by Brevard Childs -- Church Lectionaries as Biblical Theology -- Sources for Theology Proper -- Historical Paul and "Systematic Theology": To Start a Discussion -- III. FUTURE: CONSTRUCTIVE WAYS FORWARD FOR BIBLICAL THEOLOGY -- The Wisdom in Rupture: Brueggemann's Notion of Countertestimony for Postmodern Biblical Theology -- The New Testament as the Covenantal-Liturgical Consummation of the Biblical Story?: A Critical Evaluation of Scott Hahn's Biblical Theology of the New Testament -- The Place of God in the BibleBetween Jewish and Christian Theology -- Middle Narratives as an Aspect of Biblical Theology -- The Book of Revelation and New Testament Theology.

This book offers two things in particular: first, these are papers that have been commented on and re-worked in the context of a set of lively sessions from (International) SBL conferences from 2012 to 2014 (Amsterdam, St. Andrews, Vienna). Second, they offer an insight into the origins of the discipline as one which became conscious of itself in the early modern era and the turn to history and the analysis of texts, to offer something exegetical and synthetic. The fresh wind that the enterprise received in the latter part of the twentieth century is the focus of the second part of the volume, which describes the recent activity up to the present "state of the question." The third part takes a step further to anticipate the way forward for the discipline in an era where "canon"--but also "Scripture" and "theology"--seem to be alien terms, and where other ideologies are advanced in the name of neutrality. Biblical Theology will aim to be true to the evidence of the text: it will not always see clearly, but it will rely on the best of biblical criticism and theological discernment to help it. That is the spirit with which this present volume is imbued.

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