Types of Authority in Formative Christianity and Judaism

Zusatztext 'The book is full of detail and stimulating judgement (and very clearly written). It not only juxtaposes ... two modes of thought! but also highlights the tensions within each community that accompanied their definitions of authority. It does so in an additionally useful way! by reversing some customary perspectives! placing in the foregorund ... what too often lurks in the shadow of historical study.' - Philip Rousseau! Heythrop Journal Informationen zum Autor Jacob Neusner is Distinguished Research Professor of Religious Studies at the University of South Florida and Professor of Religion at Bard College, New York. Bruce Chiltern is Bernard Idding Bell Professor of Religion at Bard College, New York. Klappentext Two well-known scholars, in New Testament and Rabbinic Judaism respectively, ask the question: what does it mean to translate a theory of God's presence in the social order into a concrete doctrine of everyday authority? What sort of politics, what theory of ongoing and everyday religious encounter, and what modes of persuasive intellectual exchange embody the conviction that God is present among us and that our community is made holy by obedient response to that Presence? The holy community, the presence of God's representatives on earth, and the compelling power of certain kinds of evidence and arguments - these provide the outlines of an answer to that question. Politics come first. But both communities also looked to the authority of God embodied in persons, validated by miraculous events, or otherwise certified by gifts of the spirit. And, finally, both Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism deemed Christ and the Torah respectively to embody the logos of reason or the rules of right thought. Both maintained that well-expounded, probative evidence and compelling argument formed the best source of authority - compulsion exercised from within, by intellect. Zusammenfassung In this erudite book, Bruce Chilton and Jacob Neusner provide a study of the comparisons and contrasts between formative Christianity and Judaism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface. Introduction. Part One: Institutional Authority. 1. Theoretical Hierarchy: The Institutional Politics of Rabbinic Judaism 2. Apostles and Bishops: A Polarity of Power in Earliest Christianity Part Two: Charismatic Authority. 3. What Ended With Prophecy, and What Happened Then in Rabbinic Judaism 4. Charismata of Guidance in Primitive and Early Christianity Part Three: Scriptural Authority. 5. The Commanding Voice of Scripture in Rabbinic Judaism 6. The Conciliar Voice of Scripture in Christianity Index....

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface. Introduction. Part One: Institutional Authority. 1. Theoretical Hierarchy: The Institutional Politics of Rabbinic Judaism 2. Apostles and Bishops: A Polarity of Power in Earliest Christianity Part Two: Charismatic Authority. 3. What Ended With Prophecy, and What Happened Then in Rabbinic Judaism 4. Charismata of Guidance in Primitive and Early Christianity Part Three: Scriptural Authority. 5. The Commanding Voice of Scripture in Rabbinic Judaism 6. The Conciliar Voice of Scripture in Christianity Index.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Jacob Neusner is Distinguished Research Professor of Religious Studies at the University of South Florida and Professor of Religion at Bard College, New York. Bruce Chiltern is Bernard Idding Bell Professor of Religion at Bard College, New York.

Zusammenfassung

Bruce Chilton and Jacob Neusner study the points of comparisons and contrast between formative Christianity and Judaism. By identifying three categories of authority in each of the two religious worlds, they show how they have both worked in compelling or failing to get someone to do a given action.
The arguments are introduced by a general discussion of the founding figures of the two religions, Moses and Jesus, and how their inherent authority distilled itself through the structure of their religious institutions and intellectual thoughts.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Bruce Chilton, Bruce Neusner Chilton, Jacob Neusner
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 18.02.1999
• EAN: 9780415173254
• ISBN: 978-0-415-17325-4
• Seiten: 208
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie > Judentum