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| Titre : | The Challenge of israel's Faith |
| Auteurs : | G. Ernest Wright, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Mention d'édition : | 2nd printing |
| Editeur : | Chicago [USA] : University of Chicago Press, 1946 |
| Format : | ix + 108 p. |
| Note générale : | 1st ed. 1944 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | CM/A (Théologie de l'AT) |
| Résumé : |
Misunderstanding and distortion of the religion of Israel are certainly prevalent in our time. Few are the writers who have presented the theological propositions of that religion in a forthright and positive manner, claiming for them an eternal validity and a decisive importance for the Christian of this day. The current fashion of thought has regarded the Old Testament as a monument of antiquity, interesting to the historian, the literary critic, and the archeologist but of little serious value for the life and thought of the modern Christian. […] Those of us who are Christian theists are still faced with the fundamental question: What is the relevance of the prophetic “Thus saith the Lord”, for our day?
My concern in these pages, therefore, is not with the history of Israelite religion but rather with the central propositions of Israelite faith. The chief and all absorbing interest of the historians and prophets was not with themselves or with the great leaders of their past, but with God. It is he who is the chief character of the Old Testament, not Abraham, Moses, David, or Isaiah. The theology of the Old Testament, therefore, ought to be our major interest, to which all other branches of our study are contributory. To be sure, […] we must admit that it is impossible to lump all periods of Hebrew history together and treat their religious conceptions in a systematic way without a genetic approach. Yet the bulk of the literature of the Old Testament was either written or edited between the tenth and fifth centuries B.C., and it is dominated by a striking uniformity in point of view. To magnify the differences in conception or emphasis out of all proportion, as is so frequently done, is to be guilty of an understandable, but nevertheless curious, myopia. […] I am less concerned with the presentation of a thesis than with the attempt to describe just what Israelite religious leaders believed. |
| Note de contenu : |
- I. “Thus Saith the Lord”: The Eternal in the Temporal
- II. “Choose You This Day”: The Meaning of History - III. “Obey My Voice”: A Chapter on Terminology - IV. “For I Am Thy God”: The Living and Anthropomorphic God - V. “Ye Shall Be My People”: The Covenanted Community - VI. “Behold, the Days Come”: The Outcome of History - Postscript - Index |
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| CM/A 026 | CM/A 026 | Livre | Bibliothèque principale | Livres empruntables | Prêt possible Disponible |
