Menschwerdung
by Reinhard Feldmeier and Hermann Spieckermann
Paperback (Published)
(April 2018)
ISBN: 9783161557767
Price: $50.00
On back order
English summary: Incarnation is an act of God’s love in a world characterised by the rebellion of the created against their creator. Reinhard Feldmeier’s and Hermann Spieckermann’s new work pursues the diverse forms of this fundamental divide between God and his likeness. As expectations dwindle in Old Testament writings that existing intermediaries can bridge the gap, hope is increasingly placed on new forms of closeness to God. The proximity afforded in Jesus Christ is interpreted by New Testament witnesses in highly varying ways and culminates in the theologoumenon of the incarnation. If, as according to the story of the fall, paradise was lost because man wanted to be like God, the one reconciled with God in Christ is trusted to and entrusted with becoming a child of God in accordance with the Father who descended from the heavenly throne. Thus, the incarnation of God aims for becoming human. German description: Menschwerdung ist Tat der Liebe Gottes in einer Wirklichkeit, die gepragt ist von der Rebellion des Geschopfes gegen den Schopfer. Reinhard Feldmeier und Hermann Spieckermann gehen den vielfaltigen Gestaltwerdungen dieses Grundkonflikts zwischen Gott und seinem Ebenbild nach. Die alttestamentlichen Schriften erwarten dessen Uberwindung immer weniger von den etablierten Mittlern, sondern setzen zunehmend auf neue Gestalten der Gottesnahe. Die Gottesnahe in Jesus Christus wird dann in den Zeugnissen des Neuen Testaments auf hochst unterschiedliche Weise gedeutet, gipfelnd im Theologumenon der Menschwerdung.Ging nach dem Mythos des Sundenfalls das Paradies verloren, weil der Mensch sein wollte wie Gott, wird den von Gott in Christus mit sich Versohnten zugetraut und zugemutet, in Entsprechung zu dem vom Himmelsthron herabgekommenen Vater Gottes Kinder zu werden. So zielt die Menschwerdung Gottes auf die Menschwerdung des Menschen.
- By (author) Reinhard Feldmeier
- By (author) Hermann Spieckermann
Other Titles in this Series
Similar Books
Apocrypha, Magic, Liturgy
The Multiple Identities of Coptic Prayers in Late Antique and Early Islamic Egypt
Athanasius of Alexandria, Epistula ad episcopos Aegypti et Libyae
Old Slavonic Version and English Translation
Volume 261
Contesting Labeled Identities
The Sociology of Gentilics in Biblical and Northwest Semitic Literature
Cyril of Alexandria’s Christological Exegesis
Explorations of Partitive Exegesis in the Dialogues on the Trinity
Volume 70
Epiphanies of the Divine in the Septuagint and the New Testament
Fifth International Symposium of the Corpus Judaeo-Hellenisticum Novi Testamenti (CJHNT), 14-17 May 2015, Nottingham
Extracanonical Traditions and the Holy Land
Texts, Rituals, and Material Culture in Late Antique Palestine
From Joseph to Jesus
The Joseph Narrative as a Compositional Template from Old Greek Esther to the Gospel of Luke
Volume 125
Nicholas of Lyra’s Commentaries on the Gospels of Matthew and Luke
Franciscan Exegesis in a Time of Crisis
Paradise Lost in Transmission
The Return to Eden in the Apocalypse of Peter within Its Ethiopic and Early Christian Contexts
Punning in Odd or Elegant Constructions in Jeremiah
The Convergence of Linguistics, Rhetoric, and Textuality in the Hebrew Text of Jeremiah
Reformed Covenantal Eudaimonism
Wilhelmus à Brakel (1635–1711) on Highest Good, Virtue, and Law
Volume 87