This article deals with the fundamental changes that happened to become real within the first three centuries of Christianity and turned the self-description of Christianity as a Messianic movement and community incon...This article deals with the fundamental changes that happened to become real within the first three centuries of Christianity and turned the self-description of Christianity as a Messianic movement and community inconsistent. The main reason, as I argue, was because the Messianic confessions and expectations witnessed by early Jewish-Christian writings such as Paul＇s letters （esp. to the Romans） and the so-called Didache, a rule of a Jewish-Christian community, did not come true, since time went on, the Messiah did not reappear and, most of all, the Roman Empire remained solid. This gave way to a fundamental change caused by two historical developments and their theological effects： the slow, but steady slide of Messianic hopes as times went on and the Messiah Jesus did not reappear or change history; and the development of pagan-Christian communities approaching Jesus by the means of pagan interpretations of Jesus Christ. Eventually, these pagan interpretations made it in the 4th cent. to set up a creed that did not only suspend anything Messianic in respect of Jesus, but replace these Christian-Jewish ideas and hopes by declaring Jesus being God-man. This declaration was the end of any real Messianic hope and the end of the Jewish Jesus for many centuries. Christianity has lost its Messiah and was turned into a dogmatic religion. Facing this development it is evident that Christianity has to exceed its own dogmatic limits in respect of Jesus.展开更多
在过去的半个多世纪中,英语学界有一种甚为流行的说法,即巴特对神性的高举,极大地削弱了关于基督人性的阐述。有学者对持有此种观点的著作进行过总结,并列出一个书单,说明此观点声势之大:约翰·贝利(John Baillie)所著《基督中的上...在过去的半个多世纪中,英语学界有一种甚为流行的说法,即巴特对神性的高举,极大地削弱了关于基督人性的阐述。有学者对持有此种观点的著作进行过总结,并列出一个书单,说明此观点声势之大:约翰·贝利(John Baillie)所著《基督中的上帝》(God Was in Christ:An Essay on Incarnation and Atonement,1948);哈特威尔(Herbert Hartwell)所著《巴特神学导论》(The Theology of Karl Barth:An Introduction,1964);沃尔乔普(Charles T.Waldrop)所著《巴特的基督论:它的亚历山大学派属性》(Karl Barth’s Christology:Its Basic Alexandrian Character,1984)。展开更多
文摘This article deals with the fundamental changes that happened to become real within the first three centuries of Christianity and turned the self-description of Christianity as a Messianic movement and community inconsistent. The main reason, as I argue, was because the Messianic confessions and expectations witnessed by early Jewish-Christian writings such as Paul＇s letters （esp. to the Romans） and the so-called Didache, a rule of a Jewish-Christian community, did not come true, since time went on, the Messiah did not reappear and, most of all, the Roman Empire remained solid. This gave way to a fundamental change caused by two historical developments and their theological effects： the slow, but steady slide of Messianic hopes as times went on and the Messiah Jesus did not reappear or change history; and the development of pagan-Christian communities approaching Jesus by the means of pagan interpretations of Jesus Christ. Eventually, these pagan interpretations made it in the 4th cent. to set up a creed that did not only suspend anything Messianic in respect of Jesus, but replace these Christian-Jewish ideas and hopes by declaring Jesus being God-man. This declaration was the end of any real Messianic hope and the end of the Jewish Jesus for many centuries. Christianity has lost its Messiah and was turned into a dogmatic religion. Facing this development it is evident that Christianity has to exceed its own dogmatic limits in respect of Jesus.
文摘在过去的半个多世纪中,英语学界有一种甚为流行的说法,即巴特对神性的高举,极大地削弱了关于基督人性的阐述。有学者对持有此种观点的著作进行过总结,并列出一个书单,说明此观点声势之大:约翰·贝利(John Baillie)所著《基督中的上帝》(God Was in Christ:An Essay on Incarnation and Atonement,1948);哈特威尔(Herbert Hartwell)所著《巴特神学导论》(The Theology of Karl Barth:An Introduction,1964);沃尔乔普(Charles T.Waldrop)所著《巴特的基督论:它的亚历山大学派属性》(Karl Barth’s Christology:Its Basic Alexandrian Character,1984)。
