Acts of God in History: Studies Towards Recovering a Theological Historiography: 317 (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament) - Hardcover

Deines, Roland

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3161521811 ISBN 13: 9783161521812

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck, 2013

Synopsis

The eleven studies in this volume are connected by the conviction that God acts in history and that it remains necessary for biblical exegesis to integrate this into its methodology. Roland Deines presents historical and methodological considerations to trace how God was experienced within historical events and how such events inspired the formation of Scripture. Topics range from the Pharisees to Bar Kokhba, and from the historical Jesus to the Apostolic decrees, with Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) on Jesus and Martin Hengel on Jesus' pre-existence and incarnation discussed as particular methodological examples. Roland Deines intends these studies to be contributions towards a theologically motivated historiography. His aim is to propose a viable reading of history under the assumption that the one God to whom the Holy Scriptures of the Jewish-Christian tradition bear witness is indeed the creator, sustainer and perfecter of this world and its history.

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Review:

"Acts of God in History raises afresh the question of God for the practice of critical biblical scholarship. The unifying thesis of the work is as simple as it is provocative: historiography is shaped by critical reflection on God. [...] Deines's work constitutes a formidable challenge to a field where the synchronic judgments of the historian are too often warranted by a secular ideology in which religious convictions are allowed no claim on reality." --Wil Rogan, Review of Biblical Literature, 7.16.2015

About this edition

• Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 3161521811
• ISBN 13: 9783161521812
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 502
• Editor: Ochs Christoph, Watts Peter