PEACE THEOLOGY 101 LECTURE 11. PEACE THEOLOGY 101 Introduction to Peace Theology. This course will...
-
date post
19-Dec-2015 -
Category
Documents
-
view
217 -
download
1
Transcript of PEACE THEOLOGY 101 LECTURE 11. PEACE THEOLOGY 101 Introduction to Peace Theology. This course will...
PEACE THEOLOGY 101
PEACE THEOLOGY 101Introduction to Peace Theology.
This course will help the students to appreciate and to evaluate a biblical understanding and contemporary practice of Peace Theology. Such evaluation will be done within the framework of social sciences and informed from the perspective of biblical theology.
The students will be intellectually, emotionally, and volitionally involved in the current discussions on the meanings, proposals, and tasks of Peace Theology.
Alienation from God (Spiritual Separation)
ALIENATION OF HUMANITYSIN = MISSING THE MARK OF SHALOM
Alienation from Others (Social-Political Corruption)
Alienation from the Creation (Economic-Ecological Disintegration)
Alienation from the Self (Psycho-Social Despair)
SELFEXALTING=UNSHALOMEXISTENCE
Harmony with God(Spiritual Transformation)
PEACE OF GODHEBREW SHALOM; GREEK IRENE
Harmony with Others (Social-Political Transformation)
Harmony with the Creation(Economic-Ecological Transformation)
Harmony with the Self(Psycho-Social Transformation)
PEACEBUILDING=SHALOMLIVING
PEACE THEOLOGY 101
CRITIQUE OF THE HISTORICAL-CRITICALNEW TESTAMENT SCHOLARSHIP
The modern historical-critical scholars—and their claim to scientific, value-neutral, disinterested or disengaged approaches to historiography—need to be called into question.
Does an extra-discursive, raceless, disinterested, genderless observer really exist?
At the outset, the researcher's subjectivity shapes and influences the questions asked and the identification of problems. In any historical reconstruction, the socio-cultural location and experience of every researcher is a variable—a heuristically-valuable variable.
PEACE THEOLOGY 101
CRITIQUE OF THE HISTORICAL-CRITICALNEW TESTAMENT SCHOLARSHIP
The modern historical-critical scholars—and their claim to scientific, value-neutral, disinterested or disengaged approaches to historiography—need to be called into question.
Does an extra-discursive, raceless, disinterested, genderless observer really exist?
At the outset, the researcher's subjectivity shapes and influences the questions asked and the identification of problems. In any historical reconstruction, the socio-cultural location and experience of every researcher is a variable—a heuristically-valuable variable.
PEACE THEOLOGY 101
ISSUES SURROUNDING HISTORICAL JESUS SCHOLARSHIP CANNOT BE AVOIDED
We are faced with the challenges of political-economic injustices, ecological crises, and pluralism in the context of globalization.
This is the context where historians are called to struggle with the reconstruction of the history of Jesus of Nazareth.
PEACE THEOLOGY 101
AN EVANGELICAL JESUS SCHOLARSHIP WITHOUT BIAS?
The subjectivity of the Historical-Jesus researchers and scholars, even if they are labeled as Evangelicals, must be acknowledged as a significant variable in the language, concepts and theories employed in classifying and explaining evidences.
A number of oppressive structures in our world today have been supported, wittingly or unwittingly, by Evangelicals, in the name of Jesus!
PEACE THEOLOGY 101
NEUTRAL VIEW OF HISTORICAL JESUS?
Historical-Jesus research cannot be neutral about the issues of injustice, sufferings, and oppression.
Because of this we have to take notice of the "epistemic challenge of marginalized perspective"—that is, the way in which women, the poor, blacks and oppressed peoples are systematically written out of the historical record by, and because of, supposedly neutral and 'scientific' historiography.
William E. Arnal and Michel Desjardins, eds. Whose Historical Jesus? (Studies in Christianity and Judaism, 7; Ontario, Canada: Canadian Corporation for the Studies in Religion, 1997), p. 3.
PEACE THEOLOGY 101
BRIEF HISTORY OF HISTORICAL JESUS RESEARCH
First Quest or The Old Quest: 1778 –1906.
HERMANN SAMUEL REIMARUS
DAVID FREIDRICH STRAUSS
ERNEST RENAN
WILLIAM WREDE
The philosophical presupposition of "The First Quest" was that of the Enlightenment epistemology.
PEACE THEOLOGY 101
BRIEF HISTORY OF HISTORICAL JESUS RESEARCH
No Quest: 1906-1953.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER
RUDOLF BULTMANN
Schweitzer’s and Bultmann's views of knowledge were still influenced by Immanuel Kant's noumena-phenomena construct of reality. Both of them have admitted that, on the phenomenological level, Jesus cannot be known. Both of them also affirmed that, on the level of the noumena, the Christ of Faith or Jesus the Word can be encountered.
PEACE THEOLOGY 101
BRIEF HISTORY OF HISTORICAL JESUS RESEARCH
Second Quest or The New Quest:1953-1988.
ERNST KÄSEMANN
GÜNTHER BORNKAMM
Both Käsemann and Bornkamm, during this period of the "New Quest," brought balance to the discussion on the epistemology behind the Historical-Jesus project. Historical knowledge is not an either-or proposition in terms of objectivism and subjectivism; it is a both-and relationship between the subject and the object.
PEACE THEOLOGY 101
BRIEF HISTORY OF HISTORICAL JESUS RESEARCH
Third Quest: 1988-Present.
N.T. WRIGHT :: MARCUS BORG :: GERD THEISSEN :: BERNARD B. SCOTT :: ROBERT FUNK :: DOMINIC CROSSAN :: WILLIAM R. HERZOG II
Despite these enormous body of research on the Historical Jesus, we are still confronted with more questions…as we face the 21st century search for the Historical Jesus: What criteria can be applied to ensure the historical reliability of the materials used to depict Jesus? What controls prevent the enterprise from degenerating into total subjectivity and arbitrary speculation? How does one move from the evaluation of the individual units of tradition to a larger gestalt? What is the relationship between the parts and the whole? William R. Herzog II, Jesus, Justice, and the Reign of God: A Ministry of Liberation (Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press, 2000), pp. 35-36.
PEACE THEOLOGY 101
JESUS AND THE VICTORY OF GODVolume II of Christian Origins and the Question of God. London: SPCK, 1996
What was Jesus' message?
How did Jesus see Himself in relation to other Jewish leaders and groups of his time?
How does the work of Jesus relate to the rise of the church?
PEACE THEOLOGY 101
RECOVERING JESUS:THE WITNESS OF THENEW TESTAMENTThomas R. Yoder Neufeld
Which one is the Real Jesus?
Jesus as reconstructed on the basis of strict historical investigation?
Jesus as believed in the Christian community based on their creeds and statements of faith?
Look again at the NT both as a historical source and as a source of our creed.
PEACE THEOLOGY 101
LOOKING AT PEACE IN SEVERAL LAYERS
SUPPRESSIONOF CONFLICT
MILITARYPOLITICALECONOMICRELIGIOUS
PAXROMANA
UNJUSTGLOBALISM
JUSTPEACE
THE HIGHESTFORM OF PEACE ACHIEVABLEBY HUMAN BEINGS
SALAMSHALOM
THE PEACEOF GOD --THE KIND THATTRANSCENDSUNDERSTANDING
TRANFORMATIVE ENGAGEMENT
INEVITABLE PRESENCE OF KOSMOS
MANAGING CONFLICT ENERGY
CONFLICT ENERGY
EXPRESSEDCONSTRUCTIVELY
EXPRESSEDDESTRUCTIVELY REPRESSEDSUPPRESSED
VIOLENCE CONFLICT CONTINUES
LOST OPPORTUNITY
FOR GOOD RESULT
PERSONAL, SOCIAL, AND
POLITICAL CHANGE
RESENTMENT AND INJUSTICES INCREASE
SYSTEM
SUB-SYSTEM
RELATIONSHIP
ISSUE
DESIGN OFSOCIAL
CHANGE5-10 yrs
DESIREDFUTURE
10-25+ yrs
LEV
EL O
F R
ES
PO
NS
E
TIME FRAME OF ACTIVITY
AN INTEGRATED FRAMEWORK FOR PEACEBUILDING
ROOT CAUSESWhat are the root
causes of the crisis?
VISIONWhat are the social structures and relationships we desire?
TRANSFORMATIONHow do we get from
crisis to desired change?
CRISIS MANAGEMENTHow do we manage
the immediate crisis?
PREVENTIONHow do we prevent thecrisis from recurring?
John Paul Lederach, Building Peace: Sustainable Reconciliation in Divided Societies (USIP, Wash., DC, 1997, p. 80)
CRISISINTER-
VENTION6 wks-1 yr
PREPARATIONAND
TRAINING1-5 yrs