Moral Language in the New Testament: The Interrelatedness of Language and Ethics in Early Christian Writings. Kontexte Und Normen Neutestamentlicher E

ISBN-13: 9783161503542 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 448 str.

Luther, Susanne

Opis

This volume focuses on the interrelatedness of morality and language. Apart from explicit ethical statements, implicit NT moral language is analysed in three overlapping aspects based on the interpretation of concrete NT texts: an intratextual level (linguistic and analytic philosophical methods: syntactical form, style and logic), an textual and intertextual level (form criticism, discourse analysis) and an extratextual level (speech act analysis; rhetoric; reader-response criticism). With reference to analytical moral philosophy, the contributions address questions such as: Where does the ethical quality of a statement come from? Which linguistic devices are used to express ethics in the NT writings? In which way does the genre of the text influence its ethical meaning? Which pre- and intertexts are part of the ethical statements, in which way does the text refer to them? Which ethical impact did and do texts have on their readers? Which linguistic and rhetorical style is used to meet the addressees? Why do we consider a text powerful or polemic? Can we speak of an implicit ethical subject in the text from a literary perspective?

The authors of this volume focus on the interrelatedness of morality and language. Apart from explicit ethical statements, implicit NT moral language is analysed in three overlapping aspects based on the interpretation of concrete NT texts: an intratextual level (linguistic and analytic philosophical methods: syntactical form, style and logic), an textual and intertextual level (form criticism, discourse analysis) and an extratextual level (speech act analysis; rhetoric; reader-response criticism). §With contributions by:Richard A. Burridge,§Jörg Frey,§Sean Freyne,§Friedrich Wilhelm Horn,§Lambert D. Jacobs,§Kobus Kok,§Matthias Konradt, Hermut Löhr,§Susanne Luther,§Elijah Mahlangu, François S. Malan,§Karl-Wilhelm§Niebuhr,§Jeremy Punt,§Gert J. Steyn, Etienne de Villiers,§Pieter G. R. de§Villiers, Jan van der Watt,§Ruben Zimmermann

O autorze

Born 1979; 2012 Dr. theol.; 2018 Habilitation; 2018-20 Assistant Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Studies at the Faculty for Theology and Religious Studies, University of Groningen (NL); since 2020 Professor of New Testament at the University of Göttingen. Born 1952; emeritus professor of the University of Pretoria (South Africa) and Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands). Born 1968; 1999 Dr. theol. from the University of Heidelberg; 2003 Habilitation from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University München; currently Professor of New Testament and Ethics at the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz, Germany and research associate at the Department of Old and New Testament Studies of the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.