Juvenilization of Christianity
I couldn’t agree more with Bergler’s diagnostic. My hope is that his remedies will live up to that.
Interview with Thomas Bergler on his book The Juvenilization of American Christianity.
[link: EerdWord]
I couldn’t agree more with Bergler’s diagnostic. My hope is that his remedies will live up to that.
Interview with Thomas Bergler on his book The Juvenilization of American Christianity.
[link: EerdWord]
I just realized that Goldingay has been writing the For Everyone commentary series with Westminster John Knox, on the OT. The series is of course made famous by NT Wright with his conversational style and use-to-access format.
[link: CBD]
RT France’s new commentary on Matthew for the NICNT series is out. Check it out!
France’s book Jesus The Radical was the first book that brought me out of the “cute baby Jesus” understanding from children Sunday school. That was almost 20 years ago…..
Okay, just to make everybody even more confused, here comes the Jesus of Pope Benedict XVI (Ratzinger), adding to the pile of "Jesus-es" of Sanders', Borg's, Crossan's, Dunn's, Wright's, Theissen's….. and the list goes on…..
And it seems the words of caution from Bauckham continues to linger in the air:
There is a very serious problem here that is obscured by the naive historical positivism that popular media presentations of these matters promote, not always innocently. All history — meaning all that historians write, all historiography — is an inextricable combination of fact and interpretation, the empirically observable and the intuited or constructed meaning. In the Gospels we have, of course, unambiguously such a combination, and it is this above all that motivates the quest for the Jesus one might find if one could leave aside all the meaning that inheres in each Gospel's story of Jesus. One might, of course, acquire from a skeptical study of the Gospels a meager collection of extremely probable but mere facts that would be of very little interest. That Jesus was crucified may be indubitable but in itself it is of no more significance than the fact undoubtedly so were thousands of others in his time. The historical Jesus of any of the scholars of the quest is no mere collection of facts, but a figure of significance. Why? If the enterprise is really about going back behind the Evangelists' and the early church's interpretation of Jesus, where does a different interpretation come from? It comes not merely from deconstructing the Gospels but also from reconstructing a Jesus who, as a portrayal of who Jesus really was, can rival the Jesus of the Gospels. We should be under no illusions that however minimal a Jesus results from the quest, such a historical Jesus is no less a construction than the Jesus of each of the Gospels. Historical work, by its very nature, is always putting two and two together and making five — or twelve or seventeen.
Jesus and the Eyewitnesses, p.4
各位報讀了士師、路得記的弟兄姊妹,適逢今期明道以《士師記》為題,所以特以專載,希望對各位有幫助:
主題:重讀士師記 (all pdf files)
另外,孫寶玲的《啟示錄》註釋—萬王之王,亦已上架, 值得留意!
明道社的新書總給人驚喜,一系列與啟示錄有關的研讀剛剛推出,值得留意!
聖經精讀叢書
啟示錄──波浪濤唱凱歌
作者:曾思瀚
譯者:吳瑩宜
作者簡介
曾思瀚博士於英國雪菲大學取得哲學博士,主修聖經研究。現任教於海外神學院,並常任北美中華福音神學院客座教授,也在2006年以訪問學者身分 應邀往南非自由邦大學及印尼Bandung神學院講學。曾博士的著述包括《歷久常新的生命故事──約翰福音人物研究》,以及本社出版的《士師記──人民任 意而行的時代》等。
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楊克勤博士.美國迦勒福音神學院新約教授
曾思瀚博士的啟示錄釋經書,是一本兼具深度 學術性與高度可讀性的著作。不論是學者或平信徒,都可以發現他的著作立論周全,不但富有啟發性,並且適切時代。我很欣賞曾博士為讀者提供的經文解讀方式。 他為讀者展現整體性詮釋聖經文本的方法論,使啟示錄的大圖畫得以保存,因此讀者能夠由宏觀的角度來明白啟示錄的精義。書中簡明扼要地討論各種解讀啟示錄的 角度及其背景,幫助讀者明白,為甚麼啟示錄這卷書長久以來遭受許多誤解及濫用。
(試讀)
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明道研經叢書66
啟示錄──萬主之主
作者:孫寶玲
作者簡介
孫寶玲博士,美國南方浸信會神學院哲學博士,現任香港浸信會神學院副教授。研究範圍包括約翰文學和宣講學。近年著作有《約翰福音文學註釋》、《從聖經到宣講:學人與學道》、《此時此道》、《宣講之道:經文到講章之旅》等。
啟示錄的語言具有生發創造和建立的能力,不是客觀、抽象、疏離、冷漠、概念式的約化言說。想像式語言藉著視覺語言的表述,使讀者從日常 生活裡驚覺那理所當然的權勢,其實並沒有終極的能力。想像式語言為讀者揭示那久為忽略的啟迪和意義,它解除讀者先入為主的思念。只是對這種語言的特色和限 制不知就裡者,不是曲解誤會,就是貶抑否定。另一方面,讀者可以從固有的事物裡瞥見亮光,更清楚地認識世界的本相,甚至因為洞見而活出生命。如此,啟示錄 的文字特色就不是難以解釋的謎團,亦非難以洞悉的密碼了。
(試讀)
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「新視野釋經叢書」(New Cambridge Bible Commentary)──《啟示錄》
作者:威瑟林頓(Ben Witherington III)
譯者;陳又華
將於今年6月出版。
(試讀)
Michael Bird of Euangelion has a new book coming out called The Saving Righteousness of God: Studies on Paul, Justification and the New Perspective (Carlisle, UK: Paternoster, 2007). Looking at the endorsements from all camps, it seems to be a very interesting read, especially for those who are so confused about what NPP (and its criticisms) is all about.
Also, as mentioned before, Gordon Fee's Pauline Christology: An Exegetical-Theological Study is out as well (sample chapter here). A must-read!
幾則關於新書的消息:
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