Archive | Month of May, 2008
» See the introductory post if this series is new to you. » Special thanks go to Dr. Elliott and to Paternoster’s European Journal of Theology for permission to represent the reviews that first appeared in 2003 (on SHS 1 through 3) and 2008 (on SHS 4 through 8). Where I have some evaluative comments of my [...]
By P. Sumpter, 20 May 2008
"By carefully observing how the editors dealt with elements which they deemed unrepeatable (einmalig) but which they reckoned to be representative or universal in application, a basic hermeneutical direction is provided by which to broaden theological reflection beyond the Old Testament." (1992: 326) ... Is the redaction history of the text an example of typology in process?
By jgoroncy, 19 May 2008
One does not need to hold a remotely traditional position on the role of scripture in theology to find the spectre of conceptual chaos looming over Moltmann's formulations on this point. He has left himself with much to do in a future volume on norms and method in theology.
By M. Elliott, 9 May 2008
John Webster writes on the clarity of Scripture with special attention in the small-print section to Luther, Zwingli and especially Bullinger... Rusty Reno shows how the patristic-era exegetes like Origen and Chrystostom did not feel they had to explain scripture and draw out abstract lessons from it. This is a very worthwhile and stimulating paper... There is a wise point [via Al Wolters] learned from Theodore ‘that the use of figurative language does not somehow compromise the ability to tell the truth about historical states of affairs.’(284) There is also the possibility of multiple fulfilments of prophecy. This is a nice study in the history of exegesis... By the way, why does Scobie in quoting George Herbert put [sic] after ‘the constellation of the storie [sic]’? Does he think that Herbert didn’t know to spell?
By M. Elliott, 23 May 2008
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