Was ist „Biblische Theologie?“
Die neue Ausgabe des Magazins Credo (11/2013) enthält ein Interview mit James Hamilton über das Buch:
- James Hamilton: What Is Biblical Theology?: A Guide to the Bible’s Story, Symbolism, and Patterns, Crossway, 2013, 128 S.
Zur Frage: Was ist eigentlich „Biblische Theologie“?, sagt Hamilton:
I define biblical theology as the attempt to understand and embrace the interpretive perspective of the biblical authors. It’s not systematic theology, which organizes what the Bible teaches by topics (and can be more philosophical, depending on who is doing it). It’s not Theological Interpretation of Scripture, which, it seems to me, is the attempt to read every passage of Scripture from the perspective of one’s Systematic conclusions (in some ways TIS seems to be a move toward Biblical Theology from the Systematic wing).
The attempt to understand and embrace the interpretive perspective of the biblical authors is the attempt to understand the hermeneutical world-view the biblical authors used to interpret earlier Scripture and their own circumstances. It is based squarely on the inspired intention of the human authors (authorial intent), and it cannot be divorced from understanding the grammatical meaning that the human authors communicated in their historical contexts (grammatical- historical exegesis).
Die Credo-Ausgabe kann hier heruntergeladen werden: What’s%20the%20Big%20Story.pdf.
Ich empfehle außerdem noch eine Vorlesung von Greg Beale zum Thema:
Der Neutestamentler Douglas Moo (Wheaton College, USA) hat N.T. Wrights neues voluminöses Werk über die Theologie des Paulus: