The Variety and Unity of the Apostolic Witness to Christ

, by Goppelt, Leonhard; Roloff, Jurgen; Alsup, John E.

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ISBN: 9780802809636 | 0802809634
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Copyright: 12/1/1982

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Editor's (Revised) Foreword	p. xi
Translator's Foreword	p. xiii
Abbreviations	p. xv
The Primitive Christian Community (The Church within Israel)
The Sources and Their Evaluation	p. 1
The Sources	p. 1
The Line of Questioning of the Sources and of Their Presentation	p. 3
Following Jesus in Discipleship as the Church	p. 4
The Missionary Witness	p. 4
Baptism	p. 6
The Ekklesia	p. 9
The New Service of Worship alongside the Old	p. 12
The Altered Missionary Situation and the Beginnings of Gentile Christianity Free from the Law	p. 14
The Beginnings of Christology	p. 16
The Relationship to the Preaching of Jesus	p. 17
The Starting Point of Christology	p. 18
The Servant of God	p. 19
The Resurrection as the Exaltation to Messianic Ruler	p. 22
Maranatha!	p. 23
Regarding the Structure of Early Christological Statements	p. 25
Paul and Hellenistic Christianity
Introduction	p. 31
The Problem of Hellenistic Christianity	p. 31
On the Discussion	p. 31
The Structure of Hellenistic Christianity	p. 32
Consequences for the Representation of New Testament Theology	p. 35
The Presuppositions of Pauline Theology	p. 37
The Course of Paul's Life and Christian Traditions	p. 37
Preliminary Observation: The Sources	p. 38
His Life and Pilgrimage	p. 38
The Communication of the Gospel to Paul	p. 40
Paul and Jesus	p. 42
The Jesus Tradition and Paul's Hermeneutical Method	p. 44
The Christ Event and the Interpretive Aids of the Religious Environment	p. 46
Old Testament/Jewish Apocalypticism	p. 47
Hellenistic Syncretism	p. 49
The Old Testament	p. 50
The Christ Event and the Old Testament according to Paul	p. 51
The Fundamental Recognition of the Old Testament Canon	p. 51
The Formal Hermeneutic	p. 53
The Hermeneutical Starting Point and Its Problematic	p. 55
Hermeneutical Principles	p. 56
Scripture Interpretation as Interpretive Vehicle	p. 58
Christ and History	p. 60
The Arrangement of Pauline Theology	p. 62
Jesus Christ (Christology)	p. 65
The Line of Questioning	p. 65
The History-of-Tradition Structure of Paul's Christological Statements	p. 65
Alterations in Comparison to the Primitive Church of Palestine	p. 66
The Name "Jesus Christ"	p. 67
The Son of God	p. 68
The Hellenistic Scope of Understanding	p. 69
The Designation "Son of God": Overview of Usage	p. 71
The Inception of the Son's Activity	p. 72
The Emergence of the Preexistence Affirmation	p. 73
The Sending and Incarnation of the Preexistent Son	p. 74
The Preexistent One as the Agent of Creation	p. 76
The Enduring Significance of the Affirmations about Preexistence	p. 77
The Essence of Sonship	p. 78
The Kyrios	p. 79
The Kyrios-Confession of the Hellenistic Church	p. 79
The Origin and Content of the Hellenistic Kyrios-Concept	p. 81
The Function of the Kyrios for the Community	p. 86
The Course of Christ's Life as Saving Revelation: The Cross	p. 87
Christ's Life as a Whole	p. 88
The Cross: Terminology	p. 90
The hyper-Formula	p. 92
The Development of the hyper-Formula	p. 94
Being with Christ (syn Christo) and Baptism	p. 98
"In Christ"	p. 105
The Continued Ministry of Jesus	p. 107
The Event of Proclamation (the Gospel)	p. 107
Introduction: The Problematic	p. 107
The Terminology of Proclamation: Statistical Breakdown	p. 109
"Gospel" as a Religious Term prior to Paul	p. 110
"Gospel" in Paul	p. 111
Proclamation through Acts	p. 117
The Work of the Spirit	p. 118
Regarding History-of-Religion Analysis	p. 118
The Experience of the Spirit in Paul	p. 120
The Interpretation of the Experience of the Spirit	p. 121
Faith	p. 124
The Development of the Concept of Faith in Primitive Christianity	p. 124
The Content and Essence of Faith	p. 126
The Emergence of Faith	p. 130
Faith in the Context of Parenesis	p. 134
The Saving Effect of the Christ Event: The Gospel as the Revelation of God's Righteousness	p. 135
Justification and Reconciliation	p. 135
Regarding Terminology	p. 136
The Different Aspects of Salvation's Effect	p. 136
Justification and Reconciliation as Specific Pauline Terms	p. 137
Justification in Pauline Theology as a Whole	p. 140
The Emergence of the Gospel as Visible Form in the Church	p. 143
The Church	p. 143
The Starting Point	p. 143
The Identifying Marks of the Church	p. 145
The Church as the Eschatological People of God	p. 145
The Church as the Body of Christ (soma Christou)	p. 146
The Lord's Supper	p. 147
The Lord's Supper Celebration of the Pauline Communities	p. 147
Paul's Interpretation of the Lord's Supper	p. 149
The Theology of the Post-Pauline Writings
Introduction	p. 151
The Apostolic Period Draws to a Close	p. 151
The Situation at Its Close	p. 151
The Theological and Historical Problematic of the Closing Apostolic Period	p. 153
An Attempt at Determining the Post-Pauline Period	p. 154
Theological Groupings and Literary Forms of the Post-Pauline Period	p. 158
Christians in Society	p. 161
The Responsibility of Christians in Society according to the First Epistle of Peter	p. 161
Preliminary Consideration: Compositional Circumstances	p. 162
The Essence of Being a Christian in Society	p. 165
Responsible Conduct in the Institutions of Society	p. 167
The Theology of Suffering	p. 174
Christology	p. 176
Christians in the Post-Christian Society of the End Time according to the Book of Revelation	p. 178
Preliminary Consideration: Compositional Circumstances, Content, and Interpretive Problematic	p. 179
God and History	p. 184
The Exaltation of Christ as the Turning Point of History	p. 186
The Gospel and the Nations of the World	p. 188
Political Anti-Christianity and the True Disciples (Rev. 13)	p. 189
The Essential Characteristics of History's Climax (Rev. 6:11 and 15:19)	p. 191
The Consummation	p. 193
Starting Point and Problematic of End-Time Eschatology	p. 195
Revelation and I Peter: Two Dimensions	p. 196
The Proclamation of the Epistle of James and of Matthew in the Church of Syria	p. 199
The Epistle of James--A Parenetic Theology of Empiricism	p. 199
Preliminary Consideration: Compositional Circumstances and Interpretive Problematic	p. 199
The "Perfect Law of Liberty"	p. 202
Faith and Works--The Program of a Theology of Empiricism	p. 208
The Interpretation of Jesus' Life and Ministry through Matthew	p. 211
The Situation	p. 212
The Kerygmatic Goal in the Judgment of Scholarly Research	p. 214
The Salvation-Historical Design	p. 215
The Messiahship of Jesus	p. 216
The Fulfillment of the Law	p. 224
The Replacement of Israel by the Church	p. 229
The Long Path of the Church in History: The Theology of the Epistle to the Hebrews and of Luke	p. 237
The Community on a Journey--Christ, the Perfect High Priest (the Epistle of the Hebrews)	p. 237
Preliminary Consideration: Origin and Composition	p. 238
The Use and Understanding of Scripture	p. 243
The Theological Position	p. 246
The High Priest Christology	p. 247
Parenesis	p. 257
The Epistle to the Hebrews and Luke	p. 265
Luke--The Theologian of Salvation History	p. 266
Introduction: Compositional Relationships, Literary Distinctiveness, and Theological Problematic	p. 267
The Lukan Conception of Salvation History	p. 272
The Distinctiveness of Lukan Christology	p. 280
Jesus--Israel--The Church	p. 284
The Presence of the Eschaton in the Self-Revelation of the Logos Become Flesh (the First Epistle of John and the Gospel of John)	p. 289
The Structure of Johannine Theology	p. 289
Anonymity	p. 290
The New Language	p. 291
The ego-eimi Formulas	p. 293
Jesus--the Logos Become Flesh	p. 296
The Lord's Supper	p. 300
The Distinctiveness of Johannine Eschatology	p. 303
The Publications of Leonhard Goppelt	p. 307
Literature Supplement	p. 315
Index of Passages to Volume II	p. 329
Subject Index to Volumes I and II	p. 345
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