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War, Peace and Justice: A New Testament Perspective

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:32:53 GMT

title: War, Peace and Justice: A New Testament Perspective description: 本文發表於《教會與社會》5卷2期(2002)：67-76。

The Disciples in Mark：Narrative and Theology

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:30:23 GMT

title: The Disciples in Mark：Narrative and Theology abstract: For a long time, the Gospel of Mark had been the neglected stepchild of New Testament research. With the advent of the “Two-source Hypothesis” this situation started to change: Mark was now seen as one of the two major sources lying behind the other canonical Gospels (and the only source directly available for study), and thus as providing the most direct and dependable access to the historical Jesus. Even so, Mark was still read “in the shadow” of the other Gospels, because of the lingering effect of a reading tradition which treated it as a palimpsest of the other Gospels: For nearly nineteen hundred years the Gospel of Mark has been read in the light of the other three canonical gospels, notably Matthew. In consequence of this it was long eclipsed by its rivals…There is still the tendency, however easily we may talk about the “established priority of Mark”, to continue to regard it through the lenses of the other gospels… In the last two decades the increasing use of modern literary and sociological approaches has helped us to rediscover the Gospel of Mark in its uncompromising and provocative call to follow the suffering Son of God on the way of the cross, against impossible odds; walking in the footsteps of the first disciples whose abject failure mirrors our own cowardice, misunderstanding and failure. The new insight into the depths of meaning hidden in the deceptively simple story told by Mark, has become possible because of a new appreciation of the narrative character of the Gospel as a dramatic story. To understand the separate parts of this Gospel, we have to follow the story, “walk the way” with the disciples, read each episode in connection with the other episodes and the Gospel as a whole, and take note of the motifs, themes and narrative techniques which the author employs to bring his message home. In stead of constant comparison with the other Gospels, we need new reading which takes this Gospel seriously as a literary and theological work in its own right. The plethora of recent literary and sociological studies has contributed greatly to a clearer picture of the disciples (the Twelve) in Mark: their characterization by the author, their function in the plot of the story and especially the possible reasons for their negative portrayal (particularly when compared to the way they are portrayed in the other Gospels). This study intends to review recent research into narrative aspects of the Gospel of Mark, particularly relating to the disciples, with the purpose of delineating the outlines of Mark’s “theology of discipleship”.
description: 本文發表於《台灣神學論刊》17期(1995)：139-210。

Prayer and Epistolarity : The Function of Prayer in the Pauline Letter Structure

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:27:27 GMT

title: Prayer and Epistolarity : The Function of Prayer in the Pauline Letter Structure abstract: 1. Introduction The abundant presence of prayer elements in the introductory and concluding parts of Paul’s letters cannot escape the notice of even the most cursory reader. But what is the meaning and function of this phenomenon? What contribution does it make to the way we interpret each letter as a whole? In a previous article I have attempted to demonstrate the importance of the epistolary situation as primary interpretive framework for epistolary literature. In assessing the role of the prayer passages in the letters, we therefore have to interpret all the diverse references to prayer against the background of the particular epistolary situation; at an even more fundamental level, we should note that some prayer passages stand in an even more direct relation to the epistolarity of the letters, in that they serve to create that epistolary situation. In order to ascertain in a satisfactory way the meaning of the latter group of prayer passages, we have to confront the following questions: (1) What are the areas of interrelationship between prayer and epistolarity? (2) Is it possible to identify a specifically Pauline letter form over against a Hellenistic letter form? (3) What is the nature of the epistolary situation projected by Paul’s letters, and what is the part played by prayer in this situation? 2. The interrelationship between prayer and epistolarity 2.1 Prayer in the letter structure 2.2 Reader-consciousness: the I-you primacy 2.3 Contingency: the I-you particularity 2.4 Convergence of themes 3. Paul and the letter form 3.1 Extent of standardization in Hellenistic letters 3.2 Paul’s adaptation of the letter form 4. Prayer in the letter-opening 4.1 The Pauline prescript 4.2 The Pauline introductory thanksgiving 5. Prayer in the letter-closing 5.1 The Hellenistic letter-closing 5.2 Concluding elements of the Pauline letters 6. Paul’s reinterpretation of the epistolary situation 6.1 Relationships 6.2 Presence 6.3 Temporal framework 6.4 Polarity 6.5 Letter frame and letter body 6.6 The epistoloary situation as interpretation of the “real” situation 6.7 Conclusion
description: 本文發表於《台灣神學論刊》16期(1994)：147-188。

Reading Paul's Letters : Epistolarity and the Epistolary Situation

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:17:46 GMT

title: Reading Paul's Letters : Epistolarity and the Epistolary Situation abstract: In order to give a viable interpretation of any literary work, including Biblical literature, due attention has to be paid to its genre and the interpretive framework that its generic affiliation suggests to the reader. In the case of Paul’s letters the reader has to ask: What is the character of these writings? What does communication between him and his readers? What are the constraints to which this from of communication subjects its author and readers? How does the epistolary frame affect our interpretation of the contents of the letters? In this article we will first review various attempts to define the nature of epistolarity and then highlight the importance of the (textually based) epistolary situation as primary interpretive context for the contents of letters in general, including then the Pauline correspondence. The outline of this article: 1. Deissmann and his legacy 2. Koskenniemi: the idea of the letter 3. Altman: the epistolary genre (1) Particularity of the I-you (2) The pivotal and impossible present (3) Temporal polyvalence (4) The epistolary dialogue a. Reader-consciousness b. Present-consciousness c. Polar-consciousness 4. The Epistolary situation
description: 本文發表於《台灣神學論刊》15期(1993)：141-157。