The New Testament and Intellectual Humility

Grant Macaskill is the Kirby Laing Chair of New Testament Exegesis at the University of Aberdeen. He was previously Senior Lecturer in New Testament at the University of St Andrews, where he had completed both his doctoral and postdoctoral projects. His research engages with the New Testament as a coherent body of theological literature emerging from the diverse contexts of late Second Temple Judaism.

Introduction: The New Testament and Intellectual Humility
Part I: Concepts
1. Virtue, Selfhood, and Intellectual Humility
2. Humility in the Old Testament
3. Sketching the Christian Self in the New Testament Writings
4. 'The Old Has Gone, the New Has Come': The Apocalyptic Character of the New Testament and its Relevance to Intellectual Humility
5. The Incarnation and Intellectual Humility: 'We Have the Mind of Christ'
Part II: Practices
6. Intellectual Humility and the Practices of Faith: Prayerful Patience and Gratitude
7. Intellectual Humility and the Community of the Sacraments
8. Intellectual Humility and the Reading of Scripture
9. Concluding Synthesis
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