{"title":"Reflections on the Authorship of 2 Peter","authors":"Michael J. Gilmour","doi":"10.1163/27725472-07304002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/27725472-07304002","url":null,"abstract":"Authorship debates commence when the named author of a writing is thought to be incapable of producing that document. This assumes that enough is known about the author in question to make such a judgment. This paper is a plea for caution. It argues that there are often too many variables involved in such historical questions – especially with respect to earliest Christianity – to make dogmatic assertions. A better way is to admit openly our limitations. Five specific examples of potential ambiguity in authorship debates are discussed.","PeriodicalId":134774,"journal":{"name":"Evangelical Quarterly: An International Review of Bible and Theology","volume":"139 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123175392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘I Will Give You Rest’: The Rest Motif in the New Testament with Special Reference to Mt 11 and Heb 3-4 by Jon Laansma (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2/98. Tübingen: Mohr, 1997. xv + 459pp. DM 128. ISBN 3-16-146639-X)","authors":"A. D. Baum","doi":"10.1163/27725472-07301010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/27725472-07301010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":134774,"journal":{"name":"Evangelical Quarterly: An International Review of Bible and Theology","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126800167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Barth, Derrida and the Language of Theology by Graham Ward (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xvi + 258 pp. hb. £35. ISBN 0-521-47290-3)","authors":"D. Fergusson","doi":"10.1163/27725472-07304020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/27725472-07304020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":134774,"journal":{"name":"Evangelical Quarterly: An International Review of Bible and Theology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130109597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Bible as Word of God In a Postmodern Age by Terence E. Fretheim and Karlfried Froehlich (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1998. 135 pp. pb. £9.99. ISBN 0-8006-3094-7)","authors":"I. Howard Marshall","doi":"10.1163/27725472-07301013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/27725472-07301013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":134774,"journal":{"name":"Evangelical Quarterly: An International Review of Bible and Theology","volume":"404 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124313794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"John’s Use of the Old Testament In Revelation by G. K. Beale (JSNTS 166; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999. 443 pp. hb. £55.00. ISBN 1-85075-894-8)","authors":"D. Mathewson","doi":"10.1163/27725472-07304016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/27725472-07304016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":134774,"journal":{"name":"Evangelical Quarterly: An International Review of Bible and Theology","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123090058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Seeds of Ambivalence Sown: Barth’s Use of Calvin in Der Römerbrief II (1922)","authors":"SungWook Chung","doi":"10.1163/27725472-07301005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/27725472-07301005","url":null,"abstract":"Karl Barth’s theological relationship with John Calvin has been ignored by scholars for too long without any legitimate reason. Since Barth repeatedly affirmed his strong indebtedness to Calvin’s theology, it is essential to explicate his relationship to him in order to understand correctly the character of his theology. Der Römerbrief II (1922), which was written to replace Der Römerbrief I (1919), shows that Barth made a very careful use of Calvin’s exegetical and theological arguments in constructing his own exegetical positions. Even though Barth appreciates positively Calvin's theological insight in many aspects, he is not totally approving in his reappropriation of Calvin’s wisdom. in particular, one can find the incipient seeds of Barth’s ambivalence toward and revolt against Calvin in the former’s serious reservations about the latter’s doctrine of predestination. Thus it is arguable that in spite of Barth’s appreciative endorsement of what he sees as Calvin’s valid insights and arguments, the seeds of Barth’s serious challenge against his life-time mentor, Calvin, were already sown in Der Römerbrief II.","PeriodicalId":134774,"journal":{"name":"Evangelical Quarterly: An International Review of Bible and Theology","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128076815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does Revelation 14:11 Teach Eternal Torment? Examining a Proof-text on Hell","authors":"Ralph G. Bowles","doi":"10.1163/27725472-07301004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/27725472-07301004","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines a text (Rev. 14: 11) that is usually cited to support the doctrine of hell as eternal torment. A new exegetical interpretation of Revelation 14: 11 is proposed, suggesting that the traditional reading of the elements of this verse misses the inverted parallelistic structure of the unit Revelation 14:9-11. When the chiasm is discerned, the meaning of the text is seen to give no confirmation to ‘eternal torment’. Rather, this text fits well into the Conditional Immortality interpretation. This view holds that God will finally and fully bring his enemies to judgement, with absolute destruction and extinction as the result. This text is also discussed in the context of the Revelation to John, and the general teaching of the New Testament on the destiny of the unsaved. Some concluding comments of the function of interpretative doctrinal grids are offered.","PeriodicalId":134774,"journal":{"name":"Evangelical Quarterly: An International Review of Bible and Theology","volume":"202 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131657292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inspiration and the Freewill Defense Revisited","authors":"W. Craig","doi":"10.1163/27725472-07304004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/27725472-07304004","url":null,"abstract":"The Christian Church has traditionally held that the inspiration of Holy Scripture is verbal, plenary, and confluent. But such an affirmation may seem to be incoherent. For if Scripture is the product of both divine and human free agency, then it seems impossible that God should have sufficient control of the various authors of Scripture so as to produce a Word that is verbally and plenarily his. A Molinist theory of divine middle knowledge can help us to break this deadlock and craft a doctrine of inspiration that is both orthodox and coherent.","PeriodicalId":134774,"journal":{"name":"Evangelical Quarterly: An International Review of Bible and Theology","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123824135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Temptation Narrative of Genesis 3:1-6: A Prelude to the Pentateuch and the History of Israel","authors":"Martin Emmrich","doi":"10.1163/27725472-07301003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/27725472-07301003","url":null,"abstract":"The paper elucidates the theological tenets that moved the author I editor of the temptation story in giving the account its final shape. Genesis 3:1-6 furnishes a number of clues allowing us to conclude that the author/editor had the deuteronomistic history ‘in front of him’ when he carried out his task.\u0000As for the garden setting, it is indeed not difficult to see how the agrarian culture of Israel, who used to view her land as the garden of God, impacted the process of shaping. But more specifically, all the major elements and characters in the text seem to betray a deuteronomistic orientation. The study seeks to demonstrate that the idea of the two trees is heavily influenced by deuteronomistic (retribution) theology, as they function like the Mosaic blessing and the curse respectively. The intruding snake too assumes a role analogous to the false prophets of ancient Israel, whose objective was the introduction of apostate cults. Finally; the depiction of the woman's role in the temptation story is closely linked with the theme of the false prophet. For as the role of women in the deuteronomistic history is often key to Israel’s apostasy, so Eve's role in Genesis 3 is key to the fall.","PeriodicalId":134774,"journal":{"name":"Evangelical Quarterly: An International Review of Bible and Theology","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121277220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"John Gill and Puritan Eschatology","authors":"C. Gribben","doi":"10.1163/27725472-07304003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/27725472-07304003","url":null,"abstract":"In evangelical scholarship, John Gill has recently gained prominence for his relationship to the ‘hyper-Calvinism’ that was developing throughout eighteenth-century English nonconformity. The attention which has been given to this aspect of his thought has, however, eclipsed a wider appreciation of his legacy. Standing between the radical baptists of the seventeenth century and the mainstream dissent of the Victorian age, Gill is shown to have a crucial place in the development of a native millenarian tradition.","PeriodicalId":134774,"journal":{"name":"Evangelical Quarterly: An International Review of Bible and Theology","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116243289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}