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Salvation History as a Model for Theological Thought1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2009

James Peter
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The religious traditions in which the members of this Fellow-J. ship stand are at one in asserting that salvation is both needful and available. They are moreover at one in asserting that the prescribing and the provision of salvation take place within history, and that those who apprehend and appropriate it are historical beings.

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Scottish Journal of Theology , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , February 1970 , pp. 1 - 12
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Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1970

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References

page 1 note 2 Cullmann, Oscar, Salvation in History; trans. Sowers, Sidney G. et al. (London: S.C.M. Press, 1967) pp. 53–54.Google Scholar

page 2 note 1 Ed. Halverson, Marvin and Cohen, Arthur, A Handbook of Christian Theology (New York: Meridian Books, 1958), p. 158.Google Scholar

page 5 note 1 Cullmann, op. cit., p. 139. Cf. Barth's, Karl remarks about saga and legend dealing with ‘real history’ (Church Dogmatics, III/3 (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, Clark, 1961,), pp. 374–375.Google Scholar

page 5 note 2 This statement can be supported by reference to representatives of the five approaches characteristic of Old Testament study in the twentieth century: (i) the ‘History of Religions’ approach; (ii) the ‘Literary Analysis’ approach (Julius Wellhausen); (iii) the ‘Archaeological Discoveries’ approach (W. F. Albright, John Bright); (iv) the ‘Biblical Theology’ approach (Walter Eichrodt, Edmond Jacob, Norman Snaith); (v) the ‘History of Tradition’ approach (Albrecht Alt, Martin Noth, Gerhard von Rad, G. Ernest Wright.)

page 7 note 1 Cullmann, op. cit., p. 151.

page 7 note 2 Exodus 1.6–8.

page 9 note 1 Cullmann, op. cit., p. 78.

page 9 note 2 ibid., pp. 124–5.

page 10 note 1 op. cit., vol. IV, part 3, pp. 183–4.

page 10 note 2 Wollebius, Johannes, Christianas Theologiae Compendium (Basel, 1626), 139Google Scholar; cited by Heppe, Heinrich, Reformed Dogmatics, rev. and ed. Bizer, Ernst, trans. Thomson, G. T. (London; Allen and Unwin, 1950), p. 530.Google Scholar