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Wipf & Stock, 2019
Epochal voices in the reception history of 2 Thessalonians: an invective against the proud from t... more Epochal voices in the reception history of 2 Thessalonians: an invective against the proud from the dais of a basilica in Constantinople; an indictment of clerical simony in a Carolingian monastery that nearly faded from historical memory; a theologically integrative vision of the epistle from Reformation Zürich. These readings participate in “beauty” all the while opening up new questions for later readers of Paul’s letter, and their “meaning” is located in their fittingness to the form of Christ. This work offers a truly interdisciplinary methodology that brings together the wayward children of biblical and theological studies.
Wipf & Stock, 2018
The echo of Luther's hammer resounds in Asia, five hundred years after the Wittenberg controversy... more The echo of Luther's hammer resounds in Asia, five hundred years after the Wittenberg controversy: the cross is a flashpoint in China; Korea seeks ecclesiastical reform; the mystical union thrives in Laos; even Kant whispers in old Batavia. The diversity of ideas and influences of the Reformation is as broad and fascinating as the continent--resisting reduction to the postcolonial movement and demonstrating an affinity with Protestant foundations that somehow remains uniquely Asian. This volume brings together the reflections of Christian academics from the continent to offer a sample of the theological work that remains largely inaccessible to the broader scholarly community, with contributions in the fields of theology, biblical studies, philosophy, and Christian higher education. If the quincentennial of the Reformation has revealed anything, it is the inauguration of Asia as the locus of biblical and theological scholarship for the next five hundred years.
Book Sections by Andrew Talbert
Authoritative Texts and Reception History: Aspects and Approaches, 2017
Sola Scriptura in Asia
This essay explores Luther’s unfortunate severing of faith and reason, and the broader impact thi... more This essay explores Luther’s unfortunate severing of faith and reason, and the broader impact this has made on epistemology and ontology in the Southeast Asian classroom in a global age. Advocating a return to pre-Reformation realist metaphysics, it targets three topics for engaging this return: meaning, morality, and epistemology. Establishing this realism leads to a foundational hermeneutics characterized by openness, concern for truth, awareness of “being,” and an eye for “beauty,” all the while maintaining the essential, cross-centered theology of Martin Luther, which redeems reason.
Sola Scriptura in Asia
This book section develops from Talbert's experience with the Chinese House Church movement (CHC)... more This book section develops from Talbert's experience with the Chinese House Church movement (CHC) in Wenzhou, China. He compares Luther’s theologia crucis (theology of the cross) with the current persecution of the aforementioned church that centers on the removal of crosses from churches by the Chinese government. Though generally grounded in the theologia crucis of Luther, the theologia crucis of the CHC is more practical in its considerations of how to be the church in an oppressive context.
Articles by Andrew Talbert
Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism, 2020
The resolution to the apparently synonymous usage of the φιλία/φιλέω and ἀγάπη/ἀγαπάω word cluste... more The resolution to the apparently synonymous usage of the φιλία/φιλέω and ἀγάπη/ἀγαπάω word clusters in the Gospel of John lies in the Aristotelian discourse about ‘friendship’, as the author of the Gospel sees it intersect with the Christ-event. The Gospel author coordinates the Hellenistic preference for φιλέω and Jewish-Christian preference for ἀγαπάω as the highest forms of love, yet revises Aristotelian φιλία by subsuming it under Christian ἀγάπη, by dissolving Aristotle’s view of unequal friendships and by reconfiguring divinization as the greatest good one should desire for a friend, against Aristotle’s own view. The two terms are rendered fully synonymous by the Gospel’s conclusion, but especially in light of the death and resurrection— the divinization of Jesus— and in the discourse between Peter and Jesus in John 21, thereby bringing together Athens and Jerusalem.
Book Reviews by Andrew Talbert
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2022
Farrow's work on 1–2 Thessalonians is a masterly representation of the possibilities of a biblica... more Farrow's work on 1–2 Thessalonians is a masterly representation of the possibilities of a biblical commentary focused on the "realities engaged or implied by the text" (p. 16). It is exegetical—without getting lost in "grammatical constructions and semantic or historical possibilities" (p. 16)—and expository—operating under a participatory ontology that seeks to avoid the inadvertent manipulation of the text by the preacher who might forget that the Word is the subject of Scripture and not the congregation (p. 2).
Dictionary Articles by Andrew Talbert
Evangelisches Lexikon für Theologie und Gemeinde, 2016
Lexham Bible Dictionary, 2014
Lexham Bible Dictionary, 2014
Lexham Bible Dictionary, 2014
Lexham Bible Dictionary, 2014
Lexham Bible Dictionary, 2014
Lexham Bible Dictionary, 2014
Lexham Bible Dictionary, 2014
Lexham Bible Dictionary, 2014
Lexham Bible Dictionary, 2014
Conference Papers by Andrew Talbert
The 1st St Andrews Graduate Conference for Biblical and Early Christian Studies: Authoritative Texts and Reception History
As a conference dedicated in part to reception, it seems only appropriate to concentrate attentio... more As a conference dedicated in part to reception, it seems only appropriate to concentrate attention on the founder of reception history, Hans Robert Jauss. One of our plenary speakers will give an overview of his crucial hermeneutical theory, so I do not want to steal his thunder by summarizing his summary a day in advance. Rather, I would like to concentrate on two critical elements of his methodology, Rezeptionsästhetik (which has been translated as an "aesthetic of reception" 1 ), hoping that an expanded discussion on these topics will further undergird his approach and disclose its overall importance for biblical hermeneutics. These two foundational concepts are "aesthetics" and "dialogism." These topics are, in fact, so crucial to his theory that following the initial publication of his groundbreaking collection of articles, Toward an Aesthetic of Reception, he published two further collections of essays as apologies specifically on these concepts. 2 For the purpose of theology, however, description alone is not sufficient.
2nd International Christian Higher Education Conference, 2016
Thesis by Andrew Talbert
Wipf & Stock, 2019
Epochal voices in the reception history of 2 Thessalonians: an invective against the proud from t... more Epochal voices in the reception history of 2 Thessalonians: an invective against the proud from the dais of a basilica in Constantinople; an indictment of clerical simony in a Carolingian monastery that nearly faded from historical memory; a theologically integrative vision of the epistle from Reformation Zürich. These readings participate in “beauty” all the while opening up new questions for later readers of Paul’s letter, and their “meaning” is located in their fittingness to the form of Christ. This work offers a truly interdisciplinary methodology that brings together the wayward children of biblical and theological studies.
Wipf & Stock, 2018
The echo of Luther's hammer resounds in Asia, five hundred years after the Wittenberg controversy... more The echo of Luther's hammer resounds in Asia, five hundred years after the Wittenberg controversy: the cross is a flashpoint in China; Korea seeks ecclesiastical reform; the mystical union thrives in Laos; even Kant whispers in old Batavia. The diversity of ideas and influences of the Reformation is as broad and fascinating as the continent--resisting reduction to the postcolonial movement and demonstrating an affinity with Protestant foundations that somehow remains uniquely Asian. This volume brings together the reflections of Christian academics from the continent to offer a sample of the theological work that remains largely inaccessible to the broader scholarly community, with contributions in the fields of theology, biblical studies, philosophy, and Christian higher education. If the quincentennial of the Reformation has revealed anything, it is the inauguration of Asia as the locus of biblical and theological scholarship for the next five hundred years.
Authoritative Texts and Reception History: Aspects and Approaches, 2017
Sola Scriptura in Asia
This essay explores Luther’s unfortunate severing of faith and reason, and the broader impact thi... more This essay explores Luther’s unfortunate severing of faith and reason, and the broader impact this has made on epistemology and ontology in the Southeast Asian classroom in a global age. Advocating a return to pre-Reformation realist metaphysics, it targets three topics for engaging this return: meaning, morality, and epistemology. Establishing this realism leads to a foundational hermeneutics characterized by openness, concern for truth, awareness of “being,” and an eye for “beauty,” all the while maintaining the essential, cross-centered theology of Martin Luther, which redeems reason.
Sola Scriptura in Asia
This book section develops from Talbert's experience with the Chinese House Church movement (CHC)... more This book section develops from Talbert's experience with the Chinese House Church movement (CHC) in Wenzhou, China. He compares Luther’s theologia crucis (theology of the cross) with the current persecution of the aforementioned church that centers on the removal of crosses from churches by the Chinese government. Though generally grounded in the theologia crucis of Luther, the theologia crucis of the CHC is more practical in its considerations of how to be the church in an oppressive context.
Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism, 2020
The resolution to the apparently synonymous usage of the φιλία/φιλέω and ἀγάπη/ἀγαπάω word cluste... more The resolution to the apparently synonymous usage of the φιλία/φιλέω and ἀγάπη/ἀγαπάω word clusters in the Gospel of John lies in the Aristotelian discourse about ‘friendship’, as the author of the Gospel sees it intersect with the Christ-event. The Gospel author coordinates the Hellenistic preference for φιλέω and Jewish-Christian preference for ἀγαπάω as the highest forms of love, yet revises Aristotelian φιλία by subsuming it under Christian ἀγάπη, by dissolving Aristotle’s view of unequal friendships and by reconfiguring divinization as the greatest good one should desire for a friend, against Aristotle’s own view. The two terms are rendered fully synonymous by the Gospel’s conclusion, but especially in light of the death and resurrection— the divinization of Jesus— and in the discourse between Peter and Jesus in John 21, thereby bringing together Athens and Jerusalem.
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2022
Farrow's work on 1–2 Thessalonians is a masterly representation of the possibilities of a biblica... more Farrow's work on 1–2 Thessalonians is a masterly representation of the possibilities of a biblical commentary focused on the "realities engaged or implied by the text" (p. 16). It is exegetical—without getting lost in "grammatical constructions and semantic or historical possibilities" (p. 16)—and expository—operating under a participatory ontology that seeks to avoid the inadvertent manipulation of the text by the preacher who might forget that the Word is the subject of Scripture and not the congregation (p. 2).
Evangelisches Lexikon für Theologie und Gemeinde, 2016
Lexham Bible Dictionary, 2014
Lexham Bible Dictionary, 2014
Lexham Bible Dictionary, 2014
Lexham Bible Dictionary, 2014
Lexham Bible Dictionary, 2014
Lexham Bible Dictionary, 2014
Lexham Bible Dictionary, 2014
Lexham Bible Dictionary, 2014
Lexham Bible Dictionary, 2014
The 1st St Andrews Graduate Conference for Biblical and Early Christian Studies: Authoritative Texts and Reception History
As a conference dedicated in part to reception, it seems only appropriate to concentrate attentio... more As a conference dedicated in part to reception, it seems only appropriate to concentrate attention on the founder of reception history, Hans Robert Jauss. One of our plenary speakers will give an overview of his crucial hermeneutical theory, so I do not want to steal his thunder by summarizing his summary a day in advance. Rather, I would like to concentrate on two critical elements of his methodology, Rezeptionsästhetik (which has been translated as an "aesthetic of reception" 1 ), hoping that an expanded discussion on these topics will further undergird his approach and disclose its overall importance for biblical hermeneutics. These two foundational concepts are "aesthetics" and "dialogism." These topics are, in fact, so crucial to his theory that following the initial publication of his groundbreaking collection of articles, Toward an Aesthetic of Reception, he published two further collections of essays as apologies specifically on these concepts. 2 For the purpose of theology, however, description alone is not sufficient.
2nd International Christian Higher Education Conference, 2016