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Jesus in the New Testament: A Bibliographical Survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2014

James P. Mackey
James P. Mackey*
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University of San Francisco
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Since I bear the brunt of editorial responsibility for this section of Horizons, I take this opportunity to propose some guidelines for future contributors here and to give an example in the pages which follow. The topics chosen for a survey of recent literature, I feel, should be substantive; the kind of topic that would normally be central to a college or university course. The presentation should aim at thematic continuity rather than discrete quantity. This means that not every book and article written in the last decade need be mentioned, and older works are not excluded; but an attempt is made to achieve a critical assessment of dominant trends in the topics chosen. So, the theology of this section will be research-oriented, as all good theology should be, but, given the predominant membership-interest of the CTS, it should be aimed at classroom courses, actual or possible.

Secondly, cooperation in contributions counts as additional value, in view of the growing need for interdisciplinary interest in most areas of theology today. A systematic theologian in particular, someone has said, is one who knows something about everything and everything about nothing. I therefore acknowledge my debt in the present piece to my colleague at the University of San Francisco, John H. Elliott, whose work in New Testament is well known to those who read the professional journals and monographs in that area, and who heartily agrees with me that our team-teaching in the classroom has been an indispensable aid to our own specialties. With these preliminary remarks I offer the following example to the critical view of readers and future contributors.

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Horizons , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , Fall 1974 , pp. 51 - 73
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Copyright © The College Theology Society 1974

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References

1 Bultmann, R., The Theology of the New Testament, I (New York: Scribner's, 1951), p. 26Google Scholar.

2 Brown, R. E., “After Bultmann, What?” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 26 (1968), pp. 1–30Google Scholar; Cahill, P. J., “Bultmann and Post-Bultmannian Trends,” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 26 (1968), pp. 153–178Google Scholar; Perrin, N., Rediscovering the Teaching of Jesus (New York: Harper and Row, 1967), pp. 207–233Google Scholar.

3 Perrin, N., What is Redaction Criticism? (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1969)Google Scholar.

4 Mackey, J. P., The Problems of Religious Faith (Dublin: Helicon Press, 1973)Google Scholar.

5 See Bultmann's essay on “The New Testament and Mythology” in Kerygma and Myth, ed. Bartsch, H. W. (London: SPCK, 1957), pp. 1–16Google Scholar.

6 For a fuller discussion of the many meanings of myth in the context of New Testament study, see Perrin's, N.The New Testament: An Introduction (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974), pp. 21–34Google Scholar.

7 This does not mean that faith is irrational, but only that faith cannot be proved reasonable by starting from some other standpoint, any more than the rationality of any aspect of reality can be proved by starting from any standpoint other than the one from which it is first apprehended.

8 Perrin, , Rediscovering the Teaching of Jesus, p. 236Google Scholar.

9 Braun, Herbert, “The Meaning of New Testament Christology,” in God and Christ, Journal for Theology and Church, No. 5, ed. Funk, R. W. (New York: Harper, 1968), pp. 89–127Google Scholar.

10 Brown, , “After Bultmann, What?” pp. 7–8Google Scholar.

11 Perrin, , Rediscovering the Teaching of Jesus, p. 237Google Scholar.

12 See Bultmann's, essay “The Primitive Christian Kerygma and the Historical Jesus” in The Historical Jesus and the Kerygmatic Christ, ed. Braaten, C. E. and Harrisville, R. A. (New York: Abingdon, 1964), pp. 15–42Google Scholar.

13 Käsemann, E., Essays on New Testament Themes (London: SCM Press, 1963), pp. 15–47Google Scholar.

14 The words ‘essential continuity’ must be stressed, since there is no continuity known to us in history which is not continuity-in-change or continuity-in-discontinuity.

15 This point has been put rather differently by Robinson in the course of a revision of his earlier stance in A New Quest of the Historical Jesus. See “The Recent Debate on the New Quest,” Journal of Bible and Religion 30 (1962), pp. 198–208Google Scholar.

16 Jaspers, K. and Bultmann, R., Myth and Christianity (New York: Noonday Press, 1958)Google Scholar.

17 Fuchs, E., Studies of the Historical Jesus (London: SCM Press, 1964)Google Scholar; Ebeling, G., The Nature of Faith (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1961)Google Scholar and Word and Faith (London: SCM Press, 1963)Google Scholar.

18 Bornkamm, G., Jesus of Nazareth (New York: Harper and Bros, 1960)Google Scholar; Conzelmann, H., Jesus (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1973)Google Scholar; Dodd, C. H., The Founder of Christianity (New York: Macmillan, 1970)Google Scholar; Reumann, J., Jesus in the Church's Gospels (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1968)Google Scholar.

19 Käsemann, E., “The Problem of a New Testament Theology,” New Testament Studies 19 (1973), pp. 235–245CrossRefGoogle Scholar. See also Reumann, , Jesus in the Church's Gospels, pp. 45–48Google Scholar.

20 Reumann, , Jesus in the Church's Gospels, p. 63Google Scholar.

21 Winter, Paul, On the Trial of Jesus (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1961)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

22 Catchpole, David R., The Trial of Jesus: A Study in the Gospels and Jewish Historiography from 1770 to the Present Day (Leiden: Brill, 1971)Google Scholar.

23 Reumann, , Jesus in the Church's Gospels, p. 128Google Scholar.

24 Brown, , “After Bultmann, What?” pp. 22–23Google Scholar. See also Brown's, Jesus, God and Man: Modern Biblical Reflections (New York: Bruce, 1968)Google Scholar for a defence of the thesis that the explicit designation of Jesus as divine came only in the later part of the first century A.D.

25 Vawter, Bruce, This Man Jesus: An Essay Toward a New Testament Christology (New York: Doubleday, 1973), p. 144Google Scholar. See Pannenberg's, W.Jesus, God and Man (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1968)Google Scholar for a systematician's adoption of this kind of position on the role of the resurrection vis-a-vis faith. Pannenberg seems to have later modified this position, if not abandoned it.

26 Vawter, p. 35.

27 See Lampe's contribution to an interesting debate on the resurrection between an exegete and a philosopher in Lampe, G. W. H. and McKinnon, D. M., The Resurrection (London: Mowbray, 1966)Google Scholar.

28 Reumann, , Jesus in the Church's Gospels, p. 114Google Scholar.

29 Lindars, B., New Testament Apologetic (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1961), p. 72Google Scholar.

30 There are many works on the origin and meanings of the Kingdom of God, but the one closest to our present interests is Perrin's, NormanThe Kingdom of God in the Teaching of Jesus (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1963)Google Scholar.

31 See Perrin, Rediscovering the Teaching of Jesus, ch. 4.

32 Reumann is particularly good on this point, Jesus in the Church's Gospels, ch. 7.

33 See in this connection Reumann's treatment of the ‘conflict stories’ of incidents between Jesus and his fellow Jews, in Jesus in the Church's Gospels, pp. 253ff.

34 The breakthrough works of the redaction-critical method, which seeks the ruling theological viewpoint of the composers of the synoptic gospels—and through this their understanding of the Christ-event—are Bornkamm, G., Barth, G., Held, H. J., Tradition and Interpretation in Matthew (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1963)Google Scholar; Marxsen, W., Mark the Evangelist (Nashville: Abingdon, 1969)Google Scholar; Conzelmann, H., The Theology of Luke (New York: Harper and Row, 1960)Google Scholar; see also Conzelmann's, An Outline of the Theology of the New Testament (New York: Harper and Row, 1969)Google Scholar.

35 The works mentioned in this survey are best used in conjunction with Marshall's, A. edition of the Greek-English New Testament: The Interlinear (London: Samuel Bagster, 1960)Google Scholar, Aland's, Kurt edition of the Synopsis of the Four Gospels (New York: United Bible Society, 1973)Google Scholar, and some such work as Grant's, F. C.The Gospels: Their Origin and Their Growth (New York: Harper and Row, 1957)Google Scholar.