Understanding What One Reads
New Testament Essays
by J. Lambrecht
In the course of his long and distinguished scholarly career, Jan Lambrecht has been a prolific writer from both an academic and a pastoral perspective. Since 1994, attempts have been in process to collect as many as possible of his shorter writings into volumes that would be more accessible, resulting in four publications up to this point. In 1994, many of Professor Lambrecht’s writings on Paul appeared in Pauline Studies (BETL, 115) and, together with some from his former student, Reimund Bieringer, in Studies on 2 Corinthians (BETL, 112). In 2001, upon completion of his teaching at the Biblicum, he was honored with a volume of Collected Studies (AnBibl, 147) representing his then more recent works. This volume, as its full title indicates, consists for the most part of studies on Pauline literature and the Book of Revelation, but it also includes a short article on Christian freedom in 1 Peter. In 2002, a collection of articles in Dutch, some that had appeared previously and some new, was published as De kracht van het geloof (“The Power of Belief”). Nonetheless, there remain some of his works that have not yet been brought into a collection, and important articles in the recent Dutch collection are not available to a wider audience. This present offering attempts to address that situation. Although the twenty-two studies in the present volume have all been written or published relatively recently, they are reflective of Professor Lambrecht’s academic and pastoral interests over his entire career, ranging from Mark’s use of Matthew, and possibly Q, to the Book of Revelation, and including Luke, Acts, and Paul. Some of the writing is less technical because of the audience for which it was intended. Thus within this volume there will be some writings that will challenge scholars to rethink some positions and others addressed to a more general audience. This work is offered in the hope that the dialogue will continue and be fruitful in bringing forth old and new out of the treasure of the biblical writings.
- By (author) J Lambrecht
Other Titles in this Series
Evaluating Liturgical Reform
Four Criteria Derived from a Theological Concept of Tradition
Volume 84
Marriage – Divorce – Remarriage. Mariage – Divorce – Remariage
Challenges and Perspectives for Christians. Defis et perspectives chretiennes
Volume 58
Syncretisme / Syncretism
Echec ou promesse d'inculturation? / Failure or Opportunity for Inculturation?
Volume 75
Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding. Religions, violence et construction de la paix
Realities, Perspectives, and Prospects. Contextes, regards et perspectives
Volume 80
Volk Gottes in Afrika
Die Rolle der Laien in der pastoralen Erneuerung von Kardinal Malula, Kinshasa
Volume 60
One Bread, One Body, One Church
Essays on the Ecclesia of Christ Today in Honor of Bernard P. Prusak
Volume 81
Faith and Culture
The Construction of a Christian Identity in Interaction with the Other World Religions in Education
Volume 54
Ongoing Renewal in the Church
Reflections from Patristic Tradition, Vatican II, and Pastoral Practice
Volume 82
Patristic Sources and Catholic Social Teaching
a Forgotten Dimension: A Textual, Historical, and Rhetorical Analysis of Patristic Source Citations in the Church's Social Documents
Volume 59
Interspaces between Word, Gaze and Touch
The Bible and the Visual Medium in the Middle Ages. Collected Essays on Noli me tangere, the Woman with the Haemorrhage, the Head of John the Baptist
Volume 62
Zwarte indianen en hun symbolen
Het magisch-religieuze systeem van de Garifuna van de Baai van Tela, Honduras
Volume 45
Normativity of the Future
Reading Biblical and Other Authorative Texts in an Eschatological Perspective
Volume 61
Embraced by the Father and the Son in the Unity of the Holy Spirit
A Study of the Trinity and the Mystical Life in the Works of Jan van Ruusbroec
Volume 65
Verdwaald tussen liefde, macht en schuld
Een hermeneutisch model voor pastorale begeleiding van dader en slachtoffer bij seksueel misbruik van kinderen
Volume 49
Mystical Anthropology: Cross-Religious Perspectives
Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Arnhem Mystical Sermons and Sri Aurobindo
Volume 66
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