European Journal of Theology - Volume 29, Issue 1, 2020

ZUSAMMENFASSUNG Der erste Petrusbrief beinhaltet eine Reihe von Themen, welche die Fürsorge des Autors für die Gemeinde offenbaren. Der Brief ist bekannt für seine Anweisungen an Sklaven, Ehemänner und Ehefrauen sowie für seine Ansichten zu Leiden, sozialer Gerechtigkeit und Führung in der Gemeinde. Nichtsdestoweniger legt dieser Artikel nahe, dass das soziale Engagement des 1. Petrusbriefs sein missionales Read More

ZUSAMMENFASSUNG Dieser Aufsatz versucht die zeitgenössische Relevanz der Theologie von P.T. Forsyth auf dem Hintergrund der Kritik an Erlösungstheologien herauszuarbeiten, wie sie von mehreren gewaltfreien Theoretikern geübt wird. Er vertritt das Argument, dass Forsyths Denken von der Kritik dieser gewaltfreien Theoretiker nicht berührt wird, und macht dies in drei Hauptbereichen deutlich. Erstens, Forsyth verwe Read More

RÉSUMÉ Dans cet article, l’auteur soutient que le dialogue entre évangéliques et orthodoxes se heurte à deux obstacles. Premièrement, la tentative de dialogue théologique entre l’orthodoxie et les évangéliques est rendue hautement problématique par leur grande diversité interne. Le second obstacle résulte de la nature asymétrique des différences théologiques séparant les deux traditions. L’auteur propose un cadre Read More

ZUSAMMENFASSUNG Dieser Artikel beleuchtet, wie die christliche Kirche in Europa der Herausforderung der Präsenz von Muslimen in Europa begegnen soll. Er vertritt die grundlegende Ansicht, dass dieser Herausforderung im Licht einer theologischen Reflexion über die Offenbarung Gottes in Jesus Christus zu begegnen ist, wie sie die Heiligen Schrift offenbart. Reitsma zeigt auf, dass der Islam – wie das Christentum – Read More

SUMMARY Christians in Europe face challenges regarding freedom of religion or belief which differ in magnitude or character from those facing Christians elsewhere. The 51 states associated with geographical Europe are predominantly Christian but denominationally diverse and in part highly secularised. Those which cause highest concern in global religious freedom surveys are on the fringe of Europe: populous Russia Read More

SUMMARY This essay discusses biblical, historic and business principles on the issue of the remuneration of church ministers in England. The biblical principles for remuneration analysed are the need for church leaders to exhibit little concern for their own remuneration, sacrificial generosity, godly contentment and the need for congregations to remunerate church leaders with contextual generosity. Three historic examples ill Read More

SUMMARY This collection of essays from various theological disciplines examines the Protestant principle of sola scriptura, that is the emphasis on the priority and importance of Scripture in theology and Church. The authors address sola scriptura from systematic-theological, biblical, historical and practical-theological perspectives. They question some common conceptions of the principle, for instance that it implies that the Ref Read More

SUMMARY David Baker presents a scholarly yet eminently readable book on the Ten Commandments. For each of the ten he discusses the background, the theology and the contemporary application. I can warmly commend this book for teaching and preaching. ZUSAMMENFASSUNG David Baker präsentiert ein wissenschaftliches und dennoch sehr lesbares Buch über die Zehn Gebote. Für jede der zehn Gebote themat Read More

SUMMARY Kilchör reviews the thesis that in diachronic respect, the Torah of Moses (the Deuteronomic Code in Deuteronomy 12–26) precedes the Torah of Yahweh (Exodus – Numbers). Nowadays, this assumption dominates Old Testament scholarship. Through a detailed exegetical analysis Kilchör corroborates that an arrangement in which the Deuteronomic Code chronologically follows Exodus to Numbers, corresponding t Read More

SUMMARY Glanville's study investigates the passages in Deuteronomy which deal with the ger. He observes that virtually all these texts advocate the inclusion of the ger in the extended family, the local community, and ultimately the people of YHWH. The inclusion is advanced mainly in the economic realm, the judiciary, and through the participation in religious festivals. This part of the analysis is convincing. Less compelling Read More

SUMMARY This revised dissertation argues that Luke wrote Acts to counter the prejudice that Christianity was a movement of uneducated people by presenting Paul as orator and philosopher. The strengths of the work lie in the analysis of key lexemes associated with rhetorical and philosophical education and in the careful exegesis of the presentation of Paul in central episodes of Acts. RÉSUMÉ Cette thèse de doctorat révisée vis Read More

RÉSUMÉ Ian Paul a rédigé un excellent commentaire sur l’Apocalypse, bien argumenté, pour la série renouvelée des commentaires Tyndale du Nouveau Testament. L’introduction détaillée traite des diverses approches d’interprétation du livre et aborde les principales questions d’introduction. Le commentaire par péricopes s’organise en trois points : le contexte, le commentaire et la théologie. Il considère que l’ Read More

ZUSAMMENFASSUNG Dieses Buch ist eine Sammlung von Aufsätzen anlässlich des Geburtstags von John Nolland, Autor von Bibelkommentaren zum Matthäus- und Lukasevangelium. Die meisten Aufsätze beziehen sich auf diese Evangelien, die in ihrer Wahrnehmung von Jesus im jeweiligen Kontext ernst genommen werden. Es bereitet ein Vergnügen, diese Aufsätze zu lesen wegen ihrer treffenden und überzeugenden Bewei Read More

SUMMARY From the perspective of a church historian this doctoral thesis investigates the early-modern ideas of various denominations about the ‘Last Judgment’. The analysis lists the various end-time expectations in confessions of faith (of churches and individuals) which address the Christian hope in face of the Last Judgment. The trans- and interdenominational direction of the study reveals many beneficial avenues, but also t Read More

SUMMARY This volume of essays examines John Owen as an orthodox theologian with modern elements in his thought. It situates Owen in his early-modern context, and explores various aspects of his theology (penal atonement, Scripture, effectual calling and catholicity) and his spirituality (trinitarian piety, meditation on Christ, human happiness and public prayer). Although Owen’s context is different from our own, the essa Read More

SUMMARY This work recounts the history of the Open Brethren movement in France since its inception in the midnineteenth century. Using the analytical tools of both history and sociology, Sylvain Aharonian retraces the genesis, development and consolidation of the movement, as well as its passage from the margins to the mainstream of French evangelicalism. RÉSUMÉ Le présent ouvrage retrace l’histoire du mouvement Read More

SUMMARY Fabian Grassl evokes the theological achievement of Helmut Thielicke in the light of his fundamental life experiences of closeness to death and resistance to the Nazis. He shows how Thielicke was able to combine the basic elements of Lutheran theology with the challenges of his time into a unique intellectual signature. RÉSUMÉ Fabian Grass retrace les contributions théologiques de Helmut Thielicke en les considé Read More

SUMMARY Ernst Welti’s ‘Evidence of Circumstantial Evidence’ confidently combines the aprioric, apostioric and pragmatic lines of reasoning of the newer analytical philosophy. The author’s competence in analytical philosophy of religion and in mathematical logic (Goedel’s proof) makes his book a crystalline overall view of the standardised form of the argument for the plausibility of a form of monotheism, which has good reasons Read More

SUMMARY The evangelical movement is in a dramatic crisis of meaning. What was considered biblical-evangelical Christianity for generations is now being questioned from within its own ranks. A change is taking place which separates evangelicals from ‘post-evangelicals’, who from now on take theologically different paths. Markus Till examines how these two divergent camps came about and what Christians are actually arg Read More