CHRIST AND THE FUTURE IN NEW TESTAMENT HISTORY

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Table of Contents

Preface

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A. THE PERSON OF JESUS

I. The Historical Jesus and the Gospels

Confessional Presuppositions

Questions about Q and Pseudo-Thomas

From Jesus to the Gospels

Conclusion

II. Jesus' Use of the Old Testament and the Genesis of New Testament Theology1

Early Twentieth-Century Views of Jesus

New Directions in Form Criticism

Jesus as a Scripture Teacher

Expositions of Jesus Used by Paul

Conclusion

III. Deity Christology in Mk 14:58

Jesus' Forgiveness of Sin

The Trial of Jesus

The Temple Not Made with Hands

Jesus the Manifestation of Yahweh

IV. Isaiah and the Eschatological Temple

Isaian Expositions in the Gospels

Isaian Themes in the New Testament

The Eschatological Temple

V. Luke 9 and the Sources of its Christology

Herod's Question and Luke's Response

Luke's Sources

The Christology of Luke 9

Conclusion

VI. Background and Christology of John's Gospel: Selected Motifs

The Background

Jesus: God and Man

The Corporate Son of Man

Conclusion

VII. XpιΣτoΣ in I Cor 10:4, 9

The Pre-existent Christ

Christ the Wisdom of God

B. THIS WORLD AND THE WORLD TO COME

VIII. Resurrection: Jesus, the Sadducees and Qumran

Jesus' Argument for Resurrection

Similar Conceptions at Qumran

IX. Eschatology in Luke

Introductory Problems

Scholarly Viewpoints

The Conceptual Framework of Luke's Eschatology

The Two-Stage Manifestation of the Kingdom of God

X. Eschatology in Luke Revisited

Two Views of the 'Intermediate State'

Anthropology and Eschatology

Conclusion

XI. Present and Future Eschatology in Luke

Luke 3:16-1 7

Luke 9:23-36

Luke 23:42-43

Conclusion

XII. The Structure of Pauline Eschatology (II Cor 5:1-10)

The Believer's Corporate Existence in Christ

The Corporate House in Heaven

Nakedness: Anthropological Dualism or Eschatological Judgment?

The Mortal Body vs. Presence with the Lord

Conclusion

XIII. ΣΩmα in First Corinthians

The Shape of Pauline Anthropology

The Corporate Body

Implications for Ethics and for the Future Life

XIV. New Testament Teaching on Hell

Patristic Writers

Intertestamental Evidence

Old Testament Witness

New Testament Teaching

Conclusion

Appendix

XV. Prophecy in the New Testament Church - and Today

Antecedents to Christian Prophecy

Jesus as Prophet

Prophecy as 'Spiritual' Gift

The Role of the Prophet

Prophecy and Tongues

Prophecy and Ecstasy

Applications in the Contemporary Church

C. HISTORY AND PROPHECY: THE MATRIX OF BIBLICAL THEOLOGY

XVI. Toward a History of Early Christianity

The Origins of a Current Paradigm

A Critique of the Baur Tradition

On the Dating of the New Testament Documents

The Origin and Authority of the New Testament Documents

XVII. Reading the Gospels as History

Historical Method

Classical and Recent Form Criticism

Gospel Traditioners as Prophets

XVIII. The Role of the Prophet in the Quest for Truth

The Approach of Philosophy

The Approach of the Biblical Prophets

The Bible as the Word of God

The Meaning of 'Word of God' in Scripture

The Locus of 'Word of God' in Scripture

The Word of God Hidden and Revealed

Index of Passages

Index of Modern Authors