{"title":"The Cycle of Hardening and Healing. A Thematic Study of Obduracy in the Book of Isaiah.","authors":"Wolfgang Köhler","doi":"10.5117/ejt2024.1.002.kohl","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/ejt2024.1.002.kohl","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38568,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Theology","volume":"303 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140757689","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":"Tell Me a Good Story: The Need and Legitimacy of Narrative Apologetics","authors":"Arjan Markus, Benno van den Toren","doi":"10.5117/ejt2024.1.003.mark","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/ejt2024.1.003.mark","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38568,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Theology","volume":"825 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140787418","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":"Historical Theology, Hermeneutics and a Contemporary Loss of Nerve","authors":"Stephen Dray","doi":"10.5117/ejt2024.1.001.dray","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/ejt2024.1.001.dray","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38568,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Theology","volume":"139 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140781342","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":"Dying and Death, Preservation from Death and its Defeat in the Book of Acts","authors":"Christoph W. Stenschke","doi":"10.5117/ejt2024.1.004.sten","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/ejt2024.1.004.sten","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38568,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Theology","volume":"154 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140767012","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":"Der Römerbrief im Kontext der paulinischen Verkündigung des „ganzen Ratschlusses Gottes“. Überlegungen zum Abfassungszweck des Römerbriefs","authors":"Jacob Thiessen","doi":"10.5117/ejt2024.1.005.thie","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/ejt2024.1.005.thie","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38568,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Theology","volume":"326 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140791282","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 task of theology: ‘… bringing out of our treasures what is new and what is old’","authors":"Christoph W. Stenschke","doi":"10.5117/ejt2023.2.001.sten","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/ejt2023.2.001.sten","url":null,"abstract":"Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community.","PeriodicalId":38568,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Theology","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135762886","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":"Christological Controversies: Will the Real Catholic Žižek Please Stand Up?","authors":"Marko Draganov Vučković","doi":"10.5117/ejt2023.2.006.vuck","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/ejt2023.2.006.vuck","url":null,"abstract":"Summary Plato’s dialogue Parmenides contains the infamous ontological bombshell, the so-called Third Man argument. This argument involves a reductio criticism of the forms, arguing that the reductio premise – roughly, ‘there cannot be any ontological interpenetration between the One and the many’ – is false. The argument intimates that the only way for thought to move beyond the forms is to accept the ‘impossible’ object, the nonsensical One-and-many. This article calls any ontology which accepts this Third Man argument and attempts to answer it on its own terms, ‘material dialectic’. The high-profile debate between John Milbank and Slavoj Žižek in The Monstrosity of Christ brings the relevance of this dialectic into stark relief. Both authors accept the material dialectic and mobilise it toward competing christological theses. Yet it is important to navigate the Third Man argument in such a way as to keep a dyophysite Christology in order to satisfy orthodox theological pressures. I will therefore advance two conclusions: first, that the material dialectic is a valid analytical project; and second, that neither Milbank nor Žižek espouses an orthodox Christology: Milbank’s is monophysite while Žižek’s is patripassian. Following Milbank, I will call the final (dyophysite) corrective the ‘Catholic Žižek’ – only, contra Milbank, it will be the real Catholic Žižek.","PeriodicalId":38568,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Theology","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135762657","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":"Secular Abraham: Exploring Abraham’s Righteousness for Hopeful Public Discourse","authors":"Georgina L. Jardim","doi":"10.5117/ejt2023.2.007.jard","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/ejt2023.2.007.jard","url":null,"abstract":"Summary The figure of Abraham occurs both in the Bible and in the Qur`an. In the Bible he is in particular held up as one whose faith is counted as righteousness. Similarly, the Qur`an reflects that Abraham is a ‘pure monotheist’ who will be among the righteous. He is also popularly understood as the Father of Faith, with interfaith and secular discourses representing him as the person who joins Judaism, Christianity and Islam together as Abrahamic religions. This paper considers biblical and qur’anic constructs of the righteousness of Abraham, including the qur’anic portrayal of Abraham as ḥanīf, as figurative of the ethics of hope for secular engagement.","PeriodicalId":38568,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Theology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135762655","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":"Esau und Jakob: Familien und Figuren im Wandel?","authors":"Barbara Dörpinghaus","doi":"10.5117/ejt2023.2.002.dorp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/ejt2023.2.002.dorp","url":null,"abstract":"Summary The two protagonists of the Jacob narrative (Genesis 25–49), Jacob and Esau, and their respective families constitute the topic of the present article. Using the method of narrative exegesis of Old Testament stories, it examines the way these two figures are characterised. The focus of research is on the principal characters; a subsidiary issue is the way in which families are portrayed in the Jacob narrative. This issue is indissolubly associated with the characterisation of the two principal participants, since such portrayal gives clues about the norms and values which the narrative intends to communicate. The central thesis of this article is that the blessing which flows from Jacob’s family is not directly dependant on his character or transformation. Instead, the narrative communicates that God blesses whatever the circumstances. To be a source of blessing is thus a matter of election, not of human evaluation, ability or competence.","PeriodicalId":38568,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Theology","volume":"163 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135762631","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":"Exegesis versus Representation: Assessing Barth’s Exegesis in the Römerbrief After 100 Years","authors":"Octavian D. Baban","doi":"10.5117/ejt2023.2.004.baba","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/ejt2023.2.004.baba","url":null,"abstract":"Zusammenfassung Der vorliegende Artikel befasst sich mit zwei Fragen bezüglich Karl Barths Exegese in seinem berühmten Kommentar zum Römerbrief. Zunächst: ob Barths Exegese eine zuverlässige Richtschnur für die Kirche wie für interessierte Leser im 21. Jahrhundert darstellt. Zweitens: ob Barth Paulus‘ Gedankengang im Römerbrief gerecht wurde und ob er dessen Theologie treu wiedergab. Der Artikel versucht ein Schlaglicht zu werfen auf Barths exegetische Grundsätze und liefert Beispiele dafür, was im Kommentar geschieht, wenn Barth griechische Begriffe und Textvariante erörtert. Die Bilanz lautet: formal bietet der Kommentar Beispiele wertvoller Exegese, doch Barths theologische Agenda unterscheidet sich von der des Paulus. Statt sich auf den Römerbrief zu fokussieren, erörtert Barth die Begriffe des Paulus im Lichte dessen weiteren Briefen, die Barth durch eine kulturell stark gefärbte Brille betrachtet. Barth übersetzt die Botschaft des alten Textes in moderne Begriffe, vergleichbar mit Rudolf Bultmanns re-mythologisierte Bände neutestamentlicher Theologie.","PeriodicalId":38568,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Theology","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135762647","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}