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From Tradition to Gospel
One of the most influential scholarly works on the New Testament, showing how the Gospels and views about them developed in the Apostolic period.
ISBN-13: 9780227677520 |
"The method of Formgeschichte seeks to help in answering the historical questions as to the nature and trustworthiness of our knowledge of Jesus, and also in solving a theological problem properly so-called. It shows in what way the earliest testimony about Jesus was interwoven with the earliest testimony about the salvation which had appeared in Jesus Christ. Thereby it attempts to emphasise and illuminate the chief elements of the message upon which Christianity was founded."
From the Author's Preface
Ably translated by Bertram Lee Woolf, this is the classic exposition of the German school of theology known as Formgeschichte or "the criticism of literary form", which through literary and historical analysis seeks to understand the origins of the traditions of the New Testament, and in so doing bring to light the original intentions and interests of those earliest traditions.
"Fascinating, with its extraordinarily able analysis of folk-stories in general and of the Gospel material in particular ... we rejoice to have accessible in English so brilliantly written a work."
Living Church
"The best introduction to form criticism."
Frederick C. Grant
Dr. Martin Dibelius (1883-1947) was responsible for the term Formgeschichte and was both the pioneer and the best exponent of the method. His earliest theological studies were directed mainly towards the Semitic languages, and he took a doctorate in Semitic Philology at Tübingen. From 1915 until his death, he held the Chair of New Testament Exegesis and Criticism in Heidelberg.
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Critique of Earth by Arend Theodoor van Leeuwen
Critique of Heaven by Arend Theodoor van Leeuwen
Dogmatics (Volume I: The Christian Doctrine of God) by Emil Brunner
Dogmatics (Volume II: The Christian Doctrine of Creation and Redemption) by Emil Brunner
Dogmatics (Volume III: The Christian Doctrine of the the Church, Faith and the Consummation) by Emil Brunner
The Epistle to the Romans by Franz J. Leenhardt
The Eucharistic Memorial (Part I: The Old Testament) by Max Thurian
The Eucharistic Memorial (Part II: The New Testament) by Max Thurian
Introduction to Reformed Dogmatics, An by Auguste Lecerf
King and Messiah by Aage Bentsen
The Messianic Secret by Wilhelm Wrede
New Testament Pattern by Jean-Louis Leuba
Old Testament Theology by Ludwig Koehler
Paul: The Theology of the Apostle in the Light of Jewish Religious History by Hans Joachim Schoeps
The Religion of Ancient Israel by Theodore C. Vriezen
The Titles of Jesus in Christology: Their History in Early Christianity by Ferdinand Hahn
Vocabulary of the Bible by Jean-Jaques von Allmen
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