TY - BOOK AU - Scroggs,Robin TI - The text and the times: New Testament essays for today SN - 9780800626402 AV - BS2361 PY - 1993/// CY - Minneapolis PB - Fortress Press KW - Bible KW - New Testament KW - Theology N1 - 1 and indexes; 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?; 2 ER -