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Tag: Second Temple Judaism
Second Temple Jewish historical and interpretive context.
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Doing, Not Dualism: The Transforming Initiatives of the Sermon on the Mount within the Promise-Plan of God
Contemporary Christian ethics faces a methodological impasse, oscillating between culturally influenced liberalism and restrictive, rule-based legalism. The influence of post-Enlightenment thought, in its pursuit of moral certainty, has frequently stripped Christian ethics of its teleological core.
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The Promise-Plan: Defending the Unity of the New Testament
Contemporary biblical scholarship frequently characterizes the New Testament as a collection of divergent, even conflicting, theological perspectives. Yet this apparent fragmentation is more accurately traced to the imposition of later philosophical categories than to any inherent feature of…
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The Imago Dei and the Cosmic Temple
Western Christian theology has long engaged the question of human identity, frequently under the influence of post-biblical philosophical systems. Greek metaphysics and Enlightenment rationalism have introduced external categories that obscure the organic and supernatural dimensions of the biblical…
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From Eden to the New Jerusalem
Contemporary biblical scholarship and systematic theology frequently encounter an epistemological crisis rooted in the enduring influence of post-canonical philosophical developments. As the early church engaged the Greco-Roman world, biblical revelation was increasingly interpreted through Hellenistic categories and Platonic…
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The Resurrection of Jesus: A Historical and Theological Investigation from the Perspective of Promise-Plan Biblical Theology
The historical investigation of the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth stands at the contested intersection of historiography, biblical exegesis, and philosophical theology. In contemporary academia, historical inquiry is often constrained by an epistemological crisis—caught between the unattainable ideals…
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The Human Quest: Embodied Wisdom, the Imago Dei, and the Promise-Plan of God
The question of human origins and identity continues to generate significant epistemological and exegetical tension within contemporary theology. Western systematic theology has historically struggled to articulate a coherent anthropology, partly due to the influence of post-biblical philosophical systems…
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Genesis 22: An Exegetical and Biblical-Theological Commentary
(the “binding” of Isaac), must be understood within the overarching and progressive unfolding of the divine promise-plan. Following the catastrophic cosmic rebellions—culminating in the disinheritance of the nations at Babel (Genesis 11; Deut 32:8–9)—God initiated a singular, text-immanent…
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The Liturgy of the Promise-Plan: Reconstructing Early Christian Prayer and the Divine Honor of the Incarnate Son
Contemporary New Testament scholarship remains divided over the nature and boundaries of early Christian devotion. Many interpreters, shaped by post-Enlightenment rationalism and Hellenistic philosophical categories, struggle to explain how the earliest Jewish followers of Jesus maintained strict monotheism…
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The Fracture of Sacred Space and the Human Project: Reclaiming the Imago Dei against Cosmic Rebellion and Imperial Centralization within the Promise-Plan of God
Western Christian systematic theology has frequently interpreted the human predicament through post-biblical philosophical categories, often reducing the origin of cosmic fracture to the single Edenic rebellion in Genesis 3.
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The Architecture of Covenantal Fidelity: Reconstructing Matthew 5:17–20 and the Polemic of Law Abolishment within the Promise-Plan of God
Few New Testament passages have provoked as much sustained theological controversy as Jesus’s pronouncement regarding the Torah in Matthew 5:17–20. For centuries, Western systematic theology, influenced by post-Enlightenment categories and classical Protestant frameworks, has often interpreted Matthew through…