A Biblical Theology Of Motivation In The Pauline Epistles

1977 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 55-69 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Kenneth O. Gangel

Keyword(s):

New Testament ◽

Old Testament ◽

Biblical Theology ◽

Marriage And Family ◽

The Bible ◽

The New Testament ◽

Pauline Epistles

This first installment in a series of four studies on family theology represents only a scant outline form of what the author has assembled from the early books of the Old Testament constituting what Bible scholars call the Pentateuch and Historical Books. Multiple biblical references are representative of the wealth of family Scripture found throughout the Bible. Both writer and reader must be careful not to read into the revelation which appears in early Old Testament History and Law our advantageous understanding of the New Testament. Future installments will treat poetical books and prophets, Gospels and Acts, Pauline Epistles, and general Epistles and Revelation.

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Justification by Faith: a Patristic Doctrine

The Journal of Ecclesiastical History ◽

10.1017/s0022046906008207 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 57 (4) ◽

pp. 649-667 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

D. H. WILLIAMS

Keyword(s):

Sixteenth Century ◽

Biblical Theology ◽

Pauline Epistles ◽

Justification By Faith ◽

Uniform Definition ◽

Hilary Of Poitiers ◽

Definition Of

This essay challenges the criticism usually levelled at the early Fathers prior to Augustine for not articulating a view of justification by faith that corresponded with Pauline Christianity as reflected in the formulas of the sixteenth-century reformers. Not only is such a view anachronistic and tends to assume that there was (or is) a uniform definition of justification, but there is evidence that Latin theology before Augustine promulgated the tenets of unmerited grace and the necessity of righteousness that come only through justifying faith. In particular, the Matthew commentary of Hilary of Poitiers explicitly formulates a biblical theology of ‘fides sola iustificat’, and probably contributed to a revival of interest in the Pauline Epistles by the end of the fourth and early fifth centuries.

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Gadamer’s Concept of Aesthetic Experience as a Possibility for the Orthodox Biblical Theology

Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu ◽

10.2478/ress-2014-0130 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

pp. 378-407

Author(s):

Zdenko Š Širka

Keyword(s):

Aesthetic Experience ◽

Biblical Theology ◽

Main Thesis ◽

New Material ◽

The Way

Abstract This article finds its inspiration in the new interpretations of Gadamer’s hermeneutics, which underline the turn in his later period, and which focus on the conception of aesthetic experience as an experience of transcendence. The main thesis is that the understanding of artworks, as Gadamer describes them in contrast to the Kantian subjectification of aesthetics, can be paralleled with the way Orthodox biblical theology struggles to approach Holy Scripture in the context of Church and Tradition. The aim of this article is to bring new material to the growing reception of Gadamer among Orthodox scholars, and to initiate further discussion on the topic by showing the parallels and areas where this reception could continue.

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