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Sir Edwyn Hoskyns and the Contemporary Relevance of ‘Biblical Theology’*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

Reginald H. Fuller
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In the early 1950s a cartoon appeared in Punch depicting a British motorist able at last to resume touring the continent after World War II. The first scene shows a straight, tree-lined chaussée, with the driver saying to his passenger, ‘Now for these lovely straight French roads’. In the next scene they quickly come to a barrier with the warning, ‘Déviation 19 kilomètres’.

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New Testament Studies , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , July 1984 , pp. 321 - 334
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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NOTES

[1] For a critique of the term ‘biblical theology movement’ see Smart, James D., The Past, Present and Future of Biblical Theology (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1979), esp. chapter 1Google Scholar, ‘The “Movement” That Was Not a Movement’, pp. 9–17.Google Scholar

[2] Lampe, G. W. H., ‘Salvation: Traditions and Re-appraisals’, Queen's Essays (Birmingham: Queen's College, 1980), pp. 63–80Google Scholar. Cf. Wilkinson, Alan in Theology 6 (1983), p. 114Google Scholar: ‘I have since realized that the radicals of the 60s were in effect tackling the unfinished theological business and ethical agenda created by the First World War, but evaded by neo-orthodoxy.‘

[3] JR (1961), pp. 194–205.Google Scholar

[4] Barr, James, Semantics of Biblical Language (Oxford: University Press, 1961), pp. 195–7.Google Scholar

[5] Barr, James, The Bible in the Modern World (New York: Harper & Row, 1973), p. 5.Google Scholar

[6] Childs, Brevard, Biblical Theology in Crisis (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1970), esp. pp. 61–87Google Scholar. Childs however does call for a ‘new Biblical Theology’, pp. 91–122.Google Scholar

[7] Edwyn Clement Hoskyns & Francis Noel Davey, Crucifixion-Resurrection (London: SPCK, 1981)Google Scholar. This doubly posthumous work is scrappy, ill-organized and incomplete, but, as we hope to show, contains brilliant flashes of insight.

[8] Barrett, C. K., ‘What is New Testament Theology? Some Reflections’, Horizons in Biblical Theology 3 (1981), pp. 1–22. So already Smyth, p. xx.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

[9] Nineham, Dennis, The Use and Abuse of the Bible: A study of the Bible in an age of rapid cultural change (Library of Philosophy and Religion; London: Macmillan, 1976), pp. 1–39.Google Scholar

[10] Hamerton-Kelly, R., God the Father: Theology and Patriarchy in the Teaching of Jesus (Overtures to Biblical Theology; Philadelphia: Fortress, 1979)Google Scholar. ‘An Excursus on Method: Symbol and History in Modern Hermeneutics’, pp, 105–22.Google Scholar

[11] Grimm, W., Die Verkündigung Jesu und Deutero-Jesaja (ANTJ 1: Frankfurt am Main/Bern: Lang, 2 1981).Google Scholar

[12] Harvey, A. E., Jesus and the Constraints of History (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1982), p. 258.Google Scholar

[13] Lindemann, H. Conzelmann-A., Arbeitsbuch des Neuen Testaments (Tübingen: Mohr, 6 1982), p. 258.Google Scholar

[14] Schniewind, J., Das Evangelium nach Markus (NTD 1; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 5 1949), p.55.Google Scholar

[15] Rochais, G., Les récits de résurrection des marts dans le Nouveau Testament (SNTSMS 40; Cambridge: University Press, 1981), p. 166.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

[16] Hoskyns, E. C., The Fourth Gospel (Ed. Davey, F. N.; London: Faber & Faber, 1 1940), 1: pp. 162–3.Google Scholar

[17] Beker, J. C., Paul the Apostle: The Triumph of God in Life and Thought (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1980).Google Scholar

[18] Hoskyns, E. C., Cambridge Sermons (London: SPCK, 1938), pp. 26–7.Google Scholar