Contemporary Approaches To The New Testament and Gospels

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Contemporary Approaches To The New Testament and
Gospels

• Class Ten
• New Testament Survey

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Key Question

• Have modern findings made it impossible to speak
  confidently about the origin and meaning of the
  gospel message?

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Key Issue

• Different readers make different assumptions that
  influence how they understand the New Testament
  and therefore how they commend it to others.
  (p.154-55)

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Criticism

• Criticism is making intelligent judgments about
  historical, literary, textual, and philological
  questions which one might face in dealing with
  the Bible, in light of all the available
  evidence, when one recognizes that the Word of
  God has come to men through the words of men in
  given historical situations. (p. 155)

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Pressing Issue

• The pressing issue does not necessarily revolve
  around the validity of historical criticism, but
  the assumptions or presuppositions employed by
  the interpreter.

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Questions

• What are we reading?
• Genre
• How should we read?
• Methods of reading
• Why should we read?
• Appropriate reasons for reading the Bible

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Application The Gospels

• Historic view of the church.
• The synoptic problem.
• Marcan Hypothesis
• The necessity of Q.
• Rise of Form Criticism.
• Development of Redaction Criticism
• Narrative Criticism Reader-Response Theories
• Rhetorical Criticism Deconstructionism