What is it about?
New Testament theology describes early Christian thought by ordinary historical and linguistic methods. These do not assume belief in God, as Christian theology does. The article explains how historical theologians negotiate this tension and defends the procedure against a recent critic - Dale B. Martin: Biblical Truths (Yale, 2017).
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Why is it important?
In English-language scholarship, unlike German, New Testament theology is being marginalised by new approaches. This article criticizes Dale MArtin's rejection of the discipline and explains why it is still essential in theological education.
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New Testament theology has been a mainly German enterprise dating from the late eighteenth century and responding to the new biblical scholarship. It has rarely been as well understood as practised in Britain. The article aims to explain it in a new way that reflects a shift of interest to readers and reception, not merely in the texts and their historical contexts.
Robert Morgan
University of Oxford
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This page is a summary of: Two Types of Critical Theological Interpretation, Journal for the Study of the New Testament, October 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0142064x18804436.
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