The Variety and Unity of the Apostolic Witness to Christ

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1982 - 372 pages
 

Contents

The Primitive Christian Community The Church within Israel
1
2 The Line of Questioning of the Sources and of Their Presentation
3
25 Following Jesus in Discipleship as the Church
4
2 Baptism
6
3 The Ekklesia
9
4 The New Service of Worship alongside the Old
12
5 The Altered Missionary Situation and the Beginning of Gentile Christianity Free from the Law
14
26 The Beginnings of Christology
16
3 The Emergence of Faith
130
4 Faith in the Context of Parenesis
134
The Saving Effect of the Christ Event The Gospel as the Revelation of Gods Righteousness
135
1 Regarding Terminology
136
3 Justification and Reconciliation as Specific Pauline Terms
137
4 Justification in Pauline Theology as a Whole
140
The Emergence of the Gospel as Visible Form in the Church
143
2 The Identifying Marks of the Church
145

1 The Relationship to the Preaching of Jesus
17
2 The Starting Point of Christology
18
3 The Servant of God
19
4 The Resurrection as the Exaltation to Messianic Ruler
22
5 Maranatha
23
6 Regarding the Structure of Early Christological Statements
25
Paul and Hellenistic Christianity
31
2 The Structure of Hellenistic Christianity
32
3 Consequences for the Representation of New Testament Theology
35
The Presuppositions of Pauline Theology
37
The Sources
38
3 The Communication of the Gospel to Paul
40
4 Paul and Jesus
42
5 The Jesus Tradition and Pauls Hermeneutical Method
44
29 The Christ Event and the interpretive Aids of the Religious Environment
46
1 Old TestamentJewish Apocalypticism
47
2 Hellenistic Syscretism
49
3 The Old Testament
50
30 The Christ Event and the Old Testament according to Paul
51
2 The Formal Hermeneutic
53
3 The Hermeneutical Starting Point and Its Problematic
55
4 Hermeneutical Principles
56
5 Scripture Interpretation as Interpretive Vehicle
58
6 Christ and History
60
31 The Arrangement of Pauline Theology
62
Jesus Christ Christology
65
2 Alterations in Comparison to the Primitive Church of Palestine Statements
66
3 The Name Jesus Christ
67
33 The son of God
68
1 The Hellenistic Scope of Understanding
69
Overview of Usage
71
3 The Inception of the Sons Activity
72
4 The Emergence of the Preexistence Affirmation
73
5 The Sending and Incarnation of the Preexistent Son
74
6 The Preexistent One as the Agent of Creation
76
7 The Enduring Significance of the Affirmations
77
8 The Essence of Sonship
78
34 The Kyrios
79
2 The Origin and Content of the Hellenistic KyriosConcept
81
3 The Function of the Kyrios for the Community
86
The Cross
87
1 Christs Life as a Whole
88
Terminology
90
3 The hyperFormula
92
4 The Development of the hyperFormula
94
5 Being with Christ syn Christo and Baptism
98
6 In Christ
105
The Continued Ministry of Jesus
107
Statistical Breakdown
109
3 Gospel as a Religious Term prior to Paul
110
4 Gospel in Paul
111
5 Proclamation Through Acts
117
37 The Work of the Spirit
118
2 The Experience of the Spirit in Paul
120
3 The Interpretation of the Experience of the Spirit
121
38 Faith
124
2 The Content and Essence of Faith
126
4 The Church as the Body of Christ soma Christou
146
41 The Lords Supper
147
2 Pauls Interpretation of the Lords Supper
149
The Theology of the PostPauline Writings
151
2 The Theological and Historical Problematic of the Closing Apostolic Period
153
3 An Attempt at Determining the PostPauline Period
154
4 Theological Groupings and Literary Forms of the PostPauline Period
158
Christians in Society
161
Compositional Circumstances
162
2 The Essence of Being a Christian in Society
165
3 Responsible Conduct in the Institutions of Society
167
4 The Theology of Suffering
174
5 Christology
176
44 Christians in the PostChristian Society of the End Time according to the Book of Revelation
178
Compositional Circumstances Content and Interpretive
179
2 God and History
184
3 The Exaltation of Christ as the Turning Point of History
186
4 The Gospel and the Nations of the World
188
5 Political AntiChristianity and the True Disciple Rev 13
189
11 and 1519
191
7 The Consummation
193
8 Starting Point and Problematic of EndTime Eschatology
195
Two Dimensions
196
The Proclamation of the Epistle of James and of Matthew in the Church of Syria
199
2 The Perfect Law of Liberty
202
3 Faith and Works The Program of a Theology of Empiricism
208
46 The interpretation of Jesus Life and Ministry through Matthew
211
1 The Situation
212
2 The Kerygmatic Goal in the Judgment of Scholarly Research
214
3 The SalvationHistorical Design
215
4 The Messiahship of Jesus
216
5 The Fulfillment of the Law
224
6 The Replacement of Israel by the Church
229
The Long Path of the Church in History The Theology of the Epistle to the Hebrews and of Luke
237
Origin and Composition
238
2 The Use and Understanding of Scripture
243
3 The Theological Position
246
4 The High Priest Christology
247
5 The Parenesis
257
6 The Epistle to the Hebrews and Luke
265
48 LukeThe Theologian of Salvation History
266
Compositional Relationships Literary Distinctiveness and Theological Problematic
267
2 The Lukan Conception of Salvation History
272
3 The Distinctiveness of Lukan Christology
280
4 JesusIsraelThe Chruch
284
The Presence of the Eschaton in the SelfRevelation of the Logos Become Flesh the First Epistle of John and the Gospel of John
289
1 Anonymity
290
2 The New Language
291
3 The egoeimi Formulas
293
4 Jesus The Logos Become Flesh
296
5 The Lords Supper
300
6 The Distinctiveness of Johannine Eschatology
303
The Publications of Leonhard Goppelt
307
Literature Supplement
315
Index of Passages to Volume II
329
Subject Index to Volumes I and II
344
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