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New temporalities and a temporal (re)turn in New Testament studies? The Cullmann/Bultmann debate revisited
Edsall, Benjamin A.
Edsall, Benjamin A.
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In light of a recent surge of interest in time across a range of disciplines, a case has been made that New Testament studies has experienced a “temporal turn.” This claim raises an important question about how one understands the relation of recent developments to earlier, long-held debates about time among New Testament scholars. This question is answered here by revisiting the “salvation history” debate between Oscar Cullmann and Rudolf Bultmann, with the help of Paul Ricoeur’s analysis in Time and Narrative and in the context of recent trends in work on “temporalities.” This article argues that, although in many respects recent work on time offers fresh language to describe the kinds of time at stake for New Testament scholarship, it is also true that attending to the earlier debates shows how parts of the temporal turn are in fact a return to questions long considered.
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temporality, time, history, salvation history, Oscar Cullmann, Rudolf Bultmann, Paul Ricoeur, New Testament studies
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2024
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Harvard Theological Review
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117
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3
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631-654
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Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry
Faculty of Theology and Philosophy
Faculty of Theology and Philosophy
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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.