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I haven't read N.T. Wright's Evil and the Justice of God, but knowing what I've read of him ... I wouldn't be suprised if it doesn't actually address the real crux of the issue and rather just does a bit of historical exegesis, and narrative criticism and doesn't really address the issue (using word's like strangely, suprisingly, radically).
ReplyDeleteHe's a great New Testament scholar, a great historian ... but when it comes to his attempts at theology, they leave me frusturated. Last book of his I read was "the day the revolution began" and a lot of it was great exegesis and reconstruction ... but when you get to a solid atonement theory that takes into account all the issues, there's just nothing there.
There's a trend where some biblical scholars try to cross over into theology, and they think all they have to do is do biblical scholarship but in a normative form, and it ends up as bad theology (just like analytic philosophers who think they can reduce theology to syllogisms).
After that I decided that, when it comes to N.T. Wright, I'll stick to his early Christian Origins work, which I think is excelent.
I've thought about writing a book review for Wright's work: right now, the time is there, but I need the energy and motivation. Evil and the Justice of God is a short book, and I found it to be an enjoyable read although I take issue with a number of points he made. Maybe I can produce a review before I return to class in August.
ReplyDeleteI have not read "the revolution," so I appreciate your thoughts on it. In addition to the shortcomings you mentioned, I find Wright to be verbose at times and he doesn't always connect the dots. On the other hand, read the first part of Paul and the Faithfulness of God: I found that part of the work to be brilliant as he exegetes Philemon. Like you say, Wright's historical work is also interesting.
I would love to read a review of that work by you.
DeleteThe revolution is not terrible as far as it goes, I think it accurately represents certain atonement themes in Paul (salvation from powers of Sin and Death and so on, recapitulation), but the problem is that it presents itself as a theology book, but doesn’t actually do any systematic theological construction of an atonement theory.
I agree I’m his Pauline work, I think it’s one of the best representatives of the “New Perspective”. His work on the resurrection as brilliant, one of the best historical defenses of the resurrection that I’ve read, and how bad the attacks on the book have been re-enforce how good the book is.
I might review Evil and the Justice of God: just need the energy/inspiration to do it. We're now training for "asynchronous and synchronous learning" for the upcoming fall semester in college. That and some other things drain my energy, but we'll see.
ReplyDeleteThe resurrection book is pretty good, but one issue I have with his argument is the transphysicality concept that he applies to Jesus and Wright's tendency to overlook some forms of early Judaic belief.
One thing I've been studying here lately is also "biblical theology," which is a notoriously difficult concept.
I agree, Wright doesn't seem to do justice to the full range of early Jewish belief, and he makes too sharp a distinction between Jewish thought and Hellenistic philosophy, I don't think one can really put those two in totally seperate camps, much of jewish thought was heavily influenced by Greek thought, and it was just as genuinely Jewish as anything else.
ReplyDeleteBiblical Theology is a difficult concept, there are some people who don't agree that there is such a thing. I think there is, but you can't really do it without doing regular systematic and constructive theology, and you're gonna have to do philosophical theology as well, unless of course you're just exegeting each individual writing historically and seeing what the author intended to communicate with regards to his theology, in this case you don't really have "biblical theology" as much as just exegesis. One example is Isaiah, Isaiah read AS Isaiah is going to give you a different theology than Isaiah read through the New Testament, so in order to construct a theology there you can't just do historical exegesis.
I look forward to hearing what your studies here result in :), or what your thoughts are.
I'm glad you remind me of different studies that touch on Jewish and Greek thought: you probably remember Martin Hengel's two-volume work about Judaism and Hellenism. Even if much of what he wrote needs an adjustment, the basic point stands, that Judaism and Hellenism exchanged ideas after the Babylonian Exile, and their cultures merged.
ReplyDeleteI will let you know what my current studies yield. I've been reading Barr and John Sailhamer, among others. You might also enjoy Brevard Childs.
I have read Martin Hengel, and I agree completely with his understadning, I think E.P. Sanders made good adjustements to his work, but his basic insights stand.
ReplyDeleteThanks, I'll look up Brevard Childs :).
E.P. Sanders is another one of my favorites. For a summary of Childs' work, see https://www.sbl-site.org/publications/article.aspx?articleId=691
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