Theology of the New Testament
By: Udo Schnelle ; translated by M. Eugene Boring.
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, MI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 910
ISBN-13: 9780801036040
Subjects: Bible. -- N.T. -- Theology
Work titles: Theologie des Neuen Testaments.
Description: Udo Schnelle's Theology of the New Testament comprises philosophical reflection, reconstruction of earliest Christian thought, and a history of biblical interpretation. At heart, however, the volume offers meticulous analysis of the New Testament's varied constituents.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Translator's preface; title: Author's preface to the German edition; title: Approach : theology of the New Testament as meaning-formation; title: How history is made and written; title: History as meaning-formation; title: Understanding through narration; title: Structure : history and meaning; title: The phenomenon of the beginning; title: Theology and the academic study of religion; title: Diversity and unity; title: New Testament theology as meaning-formation; title: Jesus of Nazareth : the near God; title: The quest for Jesus; title: Beginning : John the Baptist; title: Point of departure : the coming of the one God in His kingly power; title: Center : the proclamation of the Kingdom of God; title: Ethics in the horizon of the Kingdom of God; title: Jesus as healer : God's miraculous power; title: The imminent judgment : nothing is without its consequences; title: Jesus and the law : to will the good; title: Jesus's self-understanding : more than a prophet; title: Jesus's destiny in Jerusalem : end and beginning; title: The first transformation : the emergence of Christology; title: Jesus's pre-Easter claim; title: The Resurrection appearances; title: Experiences of the spirit; title: History-of-religions context; title: Language and shape of early Christology : myth, titles, formulae, and traditions; title: The second transformation : the early Christian mission without the precondition of circumcision; title: The Hellenists; title: Antioch; title: The stance of Paul; title: Paul : missionary and thinker; title: Theology; title: Christology; title: Pneumatology; title: Soteriology; title: Anthropology; title: Ethics; title: Ecclesiology; title: Eschatology; title: Setting in the history of early Christian theology; title: The third transformation : composition of Gospels as innovative response to crises; title: Death of the founders; title: Delay of the Parousia; title: Destruction of Jerusalem and the earliest Christian congregation; title: The rise of the Flavians; title: The writing of Gospels as innovative response to crises; title: The sayings source, the Synoptic Gospels, and Acts : meaning through narration; title: The sayings source as proto-Gospel; title: Mark : the way of Jesus; title: Matthew : the new and better righteousness; title: Luke : salvation and history; title: The fourth transformation : the Gospel in the world; title: Social, religious, and political developments; title: Pseudepigraphy/deuteronymity as a historical, literary, and theological phenomenon; title: The Deutero-Pauline Letters : Paul's thought extended; title: Colossians : Paul in changing times; title: Ephesians : space and time; title: Thessalonians : date (of the end) as problem; title: The Pastoral Epistles : God's hilanthropy; title: The Catholic Epistles : voices in dangerous times; title: Peter : testing by suffering; title: James : acting and being; title: Hebrews : the God who speaks; title: Jude and 2 Peter : identity through tradition and polemic against heresy; title: Johannine theology : introduction to the Christian faith; title: Theology; title: Christology; title: Pneumatology; title: Soteriology; title: Anthropology; title: Ethics; title: Ecclesiology; title: Eschatology; title: Setting in the history of early christian theology; title: Revelation : seeing and understanding.