The text and the times : New Testament essays for today / [print]
Robin Scroggs.
- Minneapolis : Fortress Press, (c)1993.
- xii, 292 pages ; 22 cm.
Introduction : The education of the interpreter -- 1. Tradition, freedom, and the abyss -- 2. The earliest Christian communities as sectarian movement -- 3. The sociological interpretation of the New Testament : the present state of research -- 4. Paul and the eschatological woman -- 5. The next step : a common humanity -- 6. How we understand Scripture when it speaks with forked tongue -- 7. The heuristic value of a psychoanalytic model in the interpretation of Pauline theology -- 8. Eros and agape in Paul -- 9. New being, renewed mind, new perception : Paul's view of the source of ethical insight -- 10. The theocentrism of Paul -- 11. The New Testament and ethics : how do we get from there to here? -- 12. Can New Testament theology be saved? : the threat of contextualisms -- 13. Eschatological existence in Matthew and Paul : coincidentia oppositorum -- 14. Beyond criticism to encounter : the Bible in the postcritical age -- 15. Can the New Testament be relevant for the twenty-first century?