Human being, individual and social

Vanhoozer, Kevin J.

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“…Stendahl 1976a, blaming Augustine and Luther; but see the important response to Stendahl's understanding of Luther in Chester 2006). Thus, historical scrutiny of the modern philosophical, cultural, political, etc., influences that have helped set up the dichotomy between the individual and community in biblical scholarship would definitely be valuable to Pauline interpreters (an important starting point for such a study is found in works such as Taylor 1989; see also Vanhoozer 1997, a very helpful essay that analyses similar trends from a theological perspective).…”

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The Individual and Community in Twentieth- and Twenty-first-Century Pauline Scholarship

Dunson

2010

Currents in Biblical Research

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Rudolf Bultmann’s existential approach to New Testament theology found many supporters in the twentieth century. It also provoked a forceful response from his student Ernst Käsemann, who insisted that Bultmann’s individualizing interpretation, especially of Paul, was defective on exegetical, theological and philosophical grounds, because it ignored Paul’s cosmic and communal theology. The debate between these two scholars has been furthered quite vigorously in subsequent Pauline scholarship. Most scholars have followed Käsemann’s lead (directly or not) in reading Paul in a comprehensively, and, often, exclusively communal fashion. However, recent voices have questioned whether the communal reaction against Bultmannian existentialism may be one-sided, and may obscure other, equally important facets of Paul’s thought. This article surveys the debate between Bultmann and Käsemann, and the trajectories it has taken since, with special attention directed towards the most pressing interpretive issues related to the place of the individual and community in Pauline thought.

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The Individual and Community in Twentieth- and Twenty-first-Century Pauline Scholarship

Dunson

2010

Currents in Biblical Research

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“…For philosophers of religion, systematic theologians, and biblical scholars alike, the turn towards the body has encouraged scholars either to reject the concept of the soul or at least to neglect it. An example of the former can be found in Nancy Murphy's work (Murphy 2006); an example of the latter is Kevin Vanhoozer's essay 'Human being, individual and social' in the Cambridge Companion to Christian Doctrine (Vanhoozer 1997).…”

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The Soul in Preaching

Pleizier

2024

Religions

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What happened to the human soul in contemporary theories of preaching? The field of homiletics shows a wide variety of themes, approaches, perspectives, and theologies. Somewhere between the social critique, in postcolonial and post-human approaches, and sense-making, in cultural and experiential approaches, the issue of humanity re-emerges. This essay inquires whether and how it might be possible to re-envision preaching as a practice of care for the soul. The essay closes with a homiletical agenda in the form of three conditions for retrieving the soul in homiletics, a hermeneutical, a rhetorical, and a theological condition.

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“…Spiritual autism thus characterises a kind of solitary self-confinement that stems from the inability, or the unwillingness, to communicate with others. 75 Vanhoozer's theological anthropology moves (too) swiftly from psychology to theology, transforming a cognitive and psychological category into a spiritual one. The problematic implication of this transdisciplinary manoeuvre is that persons on the autistic spectrum become paradigms of 'sinful autonomy'.…”

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The Challenge of Autism for Relational Approaches to Theological Anthropology

Leidenhag

2020

Int J Systematic Theology

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In this paper, I argue that autism places an important restraint upon the use of relationality in theological anthropology. This argument proceeds by outlining how the appropriation of dialectic personalism, which initiated ‘the relational turn’ in twentieth century theological anthropology, has struggled to escape the capacity or property‐based focus on individual subjects. As such, this relational account remains discriminatory against those who do not or cannot enact a particular kind of relationality, as some models of autism suggest. Moreover, attention to interpersonal relationships as a key human capacity within twentieth century theological anthropology closely parallels and may even have informed the development of autism within psychology as, in part, a social impairment. The devastating collision of these two intellectual trajectories is made apparent in explicit references by contemporary theologians to autism as a condition that prevents some humans from bearing the image of God, developing fully into persons, or receiving God’s grace by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.

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Human being, individual and social

Cited by 12 publications

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The Individual and Community in Twentieth- and Twenty-first-Century Pauline Scholarship

The Individual and Community in Twentieth- and Twenty-first-Century Pauline Scholarship

The Soul in Preaching

The Challenge of Autism for Relational Approaches to Theological Anthropology

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