Covenant and Community: The Life, Writings and Hermeneutics of Pilgram Marpeck
- ISBN-10
- 1725286181
- ISBN-13
- 9781725286184
- Category
- Religion
- Pages
- 212
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-01-26
- Publisher
- Wipf and Stock Publishers
- Author
- William Klassen
Description
One of the problems in interpreting the Bible has always been the question of how much freedom the interpreter is allowed to take with the text. In approaching this problem William Klassen decided that at no point in the history of the church was this question raised as urgently as in the sixteenth century. The recent discovery of a number of writings by Pilgram Marpeck, an outstanding leader among the Anabaptists of the sixteenth century, made him a logical point of departure for this study. Accordingly, the book begins with a brief description of Marpeck’s life and writings, then moves on to an analysis of the two central concepts in his theology––the covenant and the Christian community. For Marpeck, the covenant is determined by Christ, and not by the Old Testament, and so the interpreter must take very seriously the way in which Jesus Christ has illuminated all of scripture. In addition, the interpreter works within a community, a community of people who have covenanted with each other to follow Christ. The covenant is taken very seriously within the community, requiring a different approach to holy scripture from that adopted by the individualist. After his analysis of Marpeck’s theology, Klassen proceeds to examine the relationship of this sixteenth-century discussion to present hermeneutical debates. It is noted for example, that certain religious groups have had a great deal of difficulty coming to agreement on the relation of the old and the new covenants, and that in many seminaries today it is the major theological question. But the nature of the Christian community is also one which directly affects each congregation. Therefore the book addresses itself not only to the trained theologian, but to the congregation which seeks to take seriously its mandate to study the Bible.
Get the book
Similar books
-
Community, Covenant, and Commitment: Selected Letters and Communications of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik
By Joseph Dov Soloveitchik"Community, Covenant and Commitment, edited by Nathaniel Helfgot, brings to light unpublished manuscripts and material of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, the foremost Orthodox Jewish thinker of the 20th century.
-
Covenant, Community, and the Spirit: A Trinitarian Theology of Church
By Robert ShermanThis is generous Reformed theology at its best." --John Webster, University of St. Andrews "Uniting us to Christ through the faith-creating gospel, the Holy Spirit simultaneously unites us to Christ's body.
-
Paul's Covenant Community: Jew and Gentile in Romans
By R. D. KaylorKaylor's theological interpretation of ROMANS proposes that covenantal assumptions underlie Paul's theology and Christology...that Paul's dominant concern in writing ROMANS centers on the unity of Jew and Gentile... that God acted in Christ ...
-
The Community of Jesus: A Theology of the Church
By Kendell H. Easley, Christopher W. MorganIntended for upper division college students, seminarians, and pastors, The Community of Jesus delivers a biblical, historic, systematic, and missional theology of the church.
-
Covenant Community and Church: A Statement on Catholic Covenant Community and a Selection of Documents
By Stephen B. ClarkCovenant Community and Church: A Statement on Catholic Covenant Community and a Selection of Documents
-
Essays on Christian Community: Do Covenant Communities Have Something to Contribute to Our Models of Church?
By Bob Tedesco". . .a very rich storehouse of pastoral wisdom and experience . . . a pastoral teaching resource."Don Schwager, Editor, Living Bulwark, international online magazine of the Sword of the Spirit
-
The Immortal Commonwealth: Covenant, Community, and Political Resistance in Early Reformed Thought
By David P. HenrecksonReveals how early modern religious conceptions of covenant and community were deployed for surprisingly radical political ends.
-
Type 2 Diabetes for Beginners
By Phyllis BarrierThis book is the “take-you-by-the-hand” guide that will become a trusted friend and adviser for the millions of people who find themselves in the growing ranks of people with diabetes.
-
Biblical Theology: Covenants and the Kingdom of God in Redemptive History
By Jeong Koo Jeon(Josh 8:24–29) likewise, the paradigm of holy war against the inhabitants of the Promised land during the conquest of the ... of holy war was also applied after the conquest of ai when israel conquered Southern canaan (Josh 10:29–43).
-
Covenant, Community, and the Common Good: An Interpretation of Christian Ethics
By Eric Mount"Covenant - a basis of Reformed theology and ethics - fell on hard times in the 1970s and 1980s because it seemed to carry with it unredeemable patriarchical presuppositions. Common...