SCRIPTURE IN HISTORY: A SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE Joseph K. Gordon, B.A., M.Div. Marquette University This work utilizes advances in philosophical hermeneutics, the historical study of Christian Scripture, and traditional theological resources to articulate a systematic theology of the Christian Bible. Chapter one introduces the challenges of the contemporary ecclesial and academic situations of Christian Scripture and invokes and explains a functional notion of systematic theology as a resource for meeting those challenges. Chapter two examines the use of the rule of faith by Irenaeus, Origen, and Augustine to locate the emergence of Christian Scripture within the faith of early Christian churches. It shows that structured, intelligible Christian belief and thought are developing and operative in Christian communities and that such faith guided engagement with Christian Scripture. Chapter three summarizes the judgments of the previous chapter, invokes the doctrines of the Nicene Creed as a rule of faith for locating Scripture within the economic work of the Triune God, and supplements the Creed with judgments and hypotheses regarding divine and human freedom and action and the missions of the Son of God and the Holy Spirit in human history. Such resources provide heuristics of the divine contexts of Christian Scripture. Since Christian Scripture bears the influence of its human transmitters and serves distinctive human purposes, chapter four articulates a philosophical and theological anthropology as an account of the human context of Christian Scripture. Chapters five and six explain the nature and purpose of Christian Scripture within the divine and human contexts of the previous two chapters. The former offers a historical overview and theological evaluation of the material history and diversity of Christian Scripture. The latter provides an account of the unity of Christian Scripture. Scripture is one, despite its diversity, because of the unified work of the Holy Spirit in inspiring and illuminating it in Christian community, because of the unity of its reference to the revelatory work of the Triune God centering on Jesus Christ, and finally because of its usefulness for bearing witness to and facilitating the work of the Holy Spirit and the Son of God in history.

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Scripture in History: A Systematic Theology of the Christian Bible

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................................................................................................................................... i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ........................................................................................................ iii TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................................................ iv A NOTE ON TRANSLATIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS .................................................... vii LIST OF FIGURES ..................................................................................................................... ix INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................................... 1 CHAPTER 1 INITIAL CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING JESUS’ (IM)POLITENESS ......................... 4 1. (Im)politeness from different viewpoints: Contributions ................................................. 4 1.1. (Im)politeness from a biblical and historical viewpoint .................................................. 4 1.1.1. Luke Timothy Johnson ............................................................................................. 4 1.1.2. Benjamin Thomas and Johan Coetzee ...................................................................... 6 1.1.3. Edward Bridge ........................................................................................................ 11 1.1.4. Ludwig Köhler and Konrad Ehlich ......................................................................... 15 1.1.5. Marina Terkourafi ................................................................................................... 18 1.1.6. Andrew Wilson ....................................................................................................... 20 1.2. (Im)politeness in specific Matthean texts ...................................................................... 22 1.2.1. (Im)politeness and the Canaanite woman ............................................................... 23 1.2.2. (Im)politeness in Matt 23 ........................................................................................ 26 1.2.3. (Im)politeness and verbal violence ......................................................................... 31 2. Filling in the gap: Purpose ................................................................................................. 32 CHAPTER 2 METHODOLOGY, PRESUPPOSITIONS AND DEFINITIONS ......................................... 33 1. Methodology and presuppositions ..................................................................................... 33 1.1. Presuppositions: Locating myself .................................................................................. 34 1.2. Methodology .................................................................................................................. 36 1.2.1. Inner texture: The text and the reader ..................................................................... 37 1.2.2. Intertexture: Ancient texts and the reader ............................................................... 39 1.2.3. Social and cultural texture: A reading model ......................................................... 41 2. (Im)politeness from a theoretical viewpoint ..................................................................... 44 2.1. First-order politeness ..................................................................................................... 44 2.2. Second-order politeness ................................................................................................. 47 3. The term (im)politeness in this research ........................................................................... 56 4. Summary .............................................................................................................................. 57

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