Acts of God in History: Studies Towards Recovering a Theological Historiography

ISBN-13: 9783161521812 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 500 str.

Roland Deines

Opis

The eleven studies in this volume are connected by the conviction that God acts in history and that it remains necessary for biblical exegesis to integrate this into its methodology. Roland Deines presents historical and methodological considerations to trace how God was experienced within historical events and how such events inspired the formation of Scripture. Topics range from the Pharisees to Bar Kokhba, and from the historical Jesus to the Apostolic decrees, with Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) on Jesus and Martin Hengel on Jesus pre-existence and incarnation discussed as particular methodological examples. Roland Deines intends these studies to be contributions towards a theologically motivated historiography. His aim is to propose a viable reading of history under the assumption that the one God to whom the Holy Scriptures of the Jewish-Christian tradition bear witness is indeed the creator, sustainer and perfecter of this world and its history.

O autorze

Born 1961; 1997 PhD; 2003 Habilitation; until 2016 Professor of New Testament at the University of Nottingham; since 2017 Professor of Biblical Theology and Ancient Judaism at Internationale Hochschule Liebenzell. Born 1977; PhD in Theology at the University of Nottingham, currently working as a Research Assistant in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Nottingham. Born 1981; PhD candidate and Teaching Associate in Biblical Studies in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Nottingham.