Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Foreword VII
4. Scripture and Theology in Context: An Introduction 1
5. Part 1: Scripture and the Web of Meanings
6. An Anthropological Analysis of Ezekiel 13:17–21 35
7. Messiahs and Redeemer Figures in Postexilic Texts 57
8. Early Divine Christology: Scripture, Narrativity and Confession in Luke-Acts 89
9. Why is the New Testament Called “New Testament”? 119
10. Disassembling Provenance: Origin Stories and Why They Matter for Scripture 149
11. Part 2: The Bible at Work: Historical Case Studies
12. Power Dynamics in the Preached Word: A Fourth Century Case Study 165
13. Augustine without a Theodicy of a Condemning God 195
14. Philosophy in Aquinas’ Exegetical Work and Its Meta-Theological Implications 235
15. Hamann between Luther and Hume 261
16. Let Everything that Hath Breath Praise the Lord 283
17. The Divine Forwards: Karl Barth’s Early Exegesis of the Pauline Epistles 305
18. Karl Rahner’s Use of the Bible 327
19. Part 3: Informing Theological Discourse: Systematic Perspectives
20. Canonical Theology, Social Location and the Search for Global Theological Method 345
21. Quadriga without Platonism 375
22. Reinventing the Quadriga 397
23. The Theological Art of Scriptural Interpretation: Lessons from von Balthasar 415
24. The Holy Scriptures as a Recognition- and Witnessing-Authority 433
25. The Relationship of Scripture and Tradition in the Light of God’s Revelation 453
26. Deriving Theology from Scripture 473
27. List of Contributors 487