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historical” interpretations are simply not the same kinds of things as “theological” interpretations.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
In the modern world of theology and biblical studies, scholars began believing that they had to establish first the ancient “meaning” of the text and only after that ask what doctrine, theology, or ethics modern Christians should derive from those ancient texts today.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
This will be a theme of my book: modern theologies of the New Testament were failures from a Christian point of view precisely because what they ended up offering was bad history, bad theology, or both.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
The Seminar announced to its public that the real Jesus was innocent of the wicked apocalypticism with which so many Christians, not least in the conservative American churches against which American academics react so strongly, had for so long associated him.
N. T. Wright • Jesus Victory of God V2: Christian Origins And The Question Of God
This will be a theme of my book: modern theologies of the New Testament were failures from a Christian point of view precisely because what they ended up offering was bad history, bad theology, or both.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
there’s no reason to let Paul win the day and reject James. Both views—that faith is a way of life and a gift from God (Paul) and that faith includes believing some truths and must be supplemented by our effort (James)—may be true when interpreted truly.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
this general thrust, of a very Jewish Jesus who was nevertheless opposed to some high-profile features of first-century Judaism, seems to me the most viable one if we are to do justice, not just to the evidence of the synoptic gospels (they, after all, are easy game for any critic who wants to avoid their implications) but more particularly to the
... See moreN. T. Wright • Jesus Victory of God V2: Christian Origins And The Question Of God
My point is that the genre itself is the problem. As long as Christian scholars insist that they are simply “describing” the theology that is really “in” the text itself, and they arrive at their conclusions using historical criticism, as long as the “meaning” they claim to “find” in the text is supposed to be also what the ancient author “intended
... See moreDale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
theologians have been saying for a long time that we should conceive of Christian faith more as a way of life than as assent to a list of propositional assertions.