217 research outputs found
The methods of historical reconstruction in the scholarly "recovery" of Corinthian Christianity
No full textA somewhat self-critical discussion of the role played by socio-historical information (e.g. about money in social relations) in historical interpretation of ancient and early Christian history, and of the standpoints of Gerd Theissen, Justin Meggitt and Eckehard and Wolfgang Stegemann in this area. The article also explores the role of sociological or social-scientific models in historical reconstruction, connecting to the methodological dispute between David Horrell and Philip Esler (in JSNT 2001) concerning how every model and every use of it presupposes a certain understanding of reality and ideas concerning the character of human action
Eschatological Visions of the New Testament: From a Premillennial Dispensationalist Interpretation towards a Contextual Korean Christian Environmental Ethic
No full textThis thesis applies the hermeneutical approach developed by Ernst M. Conradie, and by David G. Horrell, Cherryl Hunt, and Christopher Southgate, to understanding the eschatological visions of the New Testament in relation to the environment, taking into particular account South Korea’s environmental situation and the traditions of biblical interpretation in the Korean Protestant Church
Christology, eschatology and the politics of time in 1 Peter
No full textA paper first presented by David Horrell at Christology and Eschatology: A Day Symposium in Honour of Dr Andrew Chester, Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge University, 11 June 2015.This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from SAGE Publications via the DOI in this recordAbstract: Taking a point of departure from Andrew Chester’s linking of messianism and eschatology, this essay explores the Christology of 1 Peter as presented in 1.18-19, 2.21-25, and 3.18-22, linking this with 1 Peter’s eschatology. This is then analysed as a construal of time, a feature of social life to which recent social theory has given new attention. Like other examples in different times and places, the restructuring of the calendar in Asia to begin the new year with Augustus’ birthday is a politically significant act which structures the rhythms of human life according to the cardinal points of Roman imperial domination. The first letter of Peter’s eschatological Christology may thus be seen as a form of significant political challenge which structures its readers’ lives according to a different time. Assessing the significance of the letter’s construction of time offers a new way to consider its political stance vis-à-vis the Roman empire
Ecological Hermeneutics: Reflections on Methods and Prospects for the Future
No full textnotes: A discussion article followed by responses from Elaine Wainwright and Steven Bouma-Prediger© 2014 David G. HorrellOriginally published in Colloquium: The Australian and New Zealand Theological Review
Review of Larry W. Hurtado, Destroyer of the Gods: Early Christian Distinctiveness in the Roman World (Waco: Baylor UP, 2016)
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Cambridge University Press via the DOI in this record
Ethnicity, Race, Religion: Identities and Ideologies in Early Jewish and Christian Texts, and in Modern Biblical Interpretation
No full textReview of the book Ethnicity, Race, Religion: Identities and Ideologies in Early Jewish and Christian Texts, and in Modern Biblical Interpretation edited by Katherine M. Hockey and David G. Horrell
Religion, Race, Whiteness in Constructions of Jewish and Christian Identities
No full textBook Review: David G. Horrell, Ethnicity and Inclusion: Religion, Race, Whiteness in Constructions of Jewish and Christian Identities (Grand Rapids, Michigan. Eerdmans, 2020. $55.00. pp. xxiv + 424. ISBN: 978-0-8028-7608-9)
'No longer Jew or Greek': Paul's corporate Christology and the construction of Christian community
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Brill via the DOI in this recor
Eschatological Visions of the New Testament: From a Premillennial Dispensationalist Interpretation towards a Contextual Korean Christian Environmental Ethic
No full textThis thesis applies the hermeneutical approach developed by Ernst M. Conradie, and by David G. Horrell, Cherryl Hunt, and Christopher Southgate, to understanding the eschatological visions of the New Testament in relation to the environment, taking into particular account South Korea’s environmental situation and the traditions of biblical interpretation in the Korean Protestant Church
Paul, Inclusion, and Whiteness: Particularising Interpretation
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from SAGE Publications via the DOI in this record.This article takes its point of departure from the effort to reflect critically on how my racial/ethnic identity shapes what I (and the academic tradition of which I am a part) see and ask (and do not see or ask) in our interpretative work. Selections from commentaries are used to illustrate the history of interpretation of Gal. 3.28, and the findings are interrogated in the light of questions and issues deriving from the field of ‘whiteness’ studies. For a start, such studies may provoke us to think about how far Christianness – and unspoken assumptions about its superiority – shapes what is said about this text (e.g., in the frequent contrast drawn between Jewish exclusivism and Christian inclusivism). Furthermore, we may ask about the particular location of this interpretative tradition not only in religious terms, but also in racial ones. The changing contours of interpretation help to show how it is, in part at least, shaped by its contexts of production in the white, Christian West: it may thus be ‘particularized’ in both religious and racial terms. Just as whiteness studies has criticized the tendency of the ‘white’ perspective to remain ‘unlabelled’, unspecific, implicitly ‘human’ and universal, so too we may critique the tendency of this tradition of biblical studies to avoid labelling and recognizing its own specificity. Doing so, moreover, may help us not only to acknowledge our own particularity, but also to recognize why we need the insights of differently located and embodied interpreters to reach towards richer insight. Recognizing and labelling the particularity of our own perspective is thus one step towards equalizing the value of the various (labelled and unlabelled) perspectives in biblical studies.I would also like to thank the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the UK for their support of the research project on which this essay draws (grant reference AH-M009149/1)
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