NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion - Volume 76, Issue 2, 2022

Abstract James M. Gustafson, who died in 2021, has influenced generations of theologians and ethicists. After providing a short biography, the present article highlights some of Gustafson’s most influential contributions to theological ethics: his rejection of anthropocentrism in theology, the way in which he connects Bible and tradition with science, philosophy, and human experience into one comprehensive theory, and the c Read More

Abstract Between Awakening and Mediation: Dutch Encounters with the Theology of August Tholuck The prominent German theologian August Tholuck (1799–1877) stood in close contact with several leading persons in the Dutch nineteenth-century religious, theological, and ecclesiastical field. However, recent historiography has hardly paid any attention to the relation between Tholuck’s theology and the Dutch situation. T Read More

Abstract Combining review and critical discussion, the article begins by summarising the successive chapters of Adi Ophir and Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Goy: Israel’s Multiple Others and the Birth of the Gentile (2018). The book traces the development of the phrase goy from its meaning of “nation” in the Old Testament to the meaning of “non-Jew” in rabbinic literature. The apostle Paul is given a singular importance, as he was the first to u Read More

Abstract As part of NTT JTSR’s series on Key Texts, the present article discusses the influence of Harald Weinrich’s classic work Tempus: besprochene und erzählte Welt (1964) on biblical studies. It describes Harald Weinrich’s position in the field of text linguistics which emerged in the 1960s and explores its introduction into Biblical Hebrew studies in the 1970s and its remarkable lasting influence in the field of Biblical sc Read More