NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion - Volume 51, Issue 2, 1997

Abstract Luke’s account of Jesus’ birth as synchronous with Quirinius’ census (according to Josephus in 6 CE) has traditionally met with a triple criticism: (1) Herod I had then been dead for more than ten years and his kingdom was never subject to a Roman census; (2) no general decree about such a census is known to have been issued by Augustus around the beginning of our era; (3) in 6 CE Joseph in the tetrarchy of Ga Read More

Abstract The present essay deals with the thought of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. The essay starts with biographical information on Soloveitchik and a short characterization of his mitnagdic background. It continues with a discussion of Soloveitchik’s ontotheological interpretation of the divine names ehyeh, ehyeh asher ehyeh, and the tetragrammaton. The discussion deals with Soloveitchik’s four claims on the matter, viz.: (1) Read More

Abstract This article offers a survey of recent research in fundamental Christian ethics, from the perspective of Protestant theology. It shows that besides the concept of morals as autonomous, and besides the still predominant tradition of rational deliberation (with its focus on the moral act and decision in isolation from the moral subject and the moral purpose) there are to be discerned three concepts, in which the moral ac Read More