Ideology and Exegesis: A Response to Gerald O’Collins

Gerald O’Collins’s insistence that scholars read Paul’s encomium to Christ in Phil 2:6-11 as anticipating later Christian orthodoxy confuses theological apologetics for historical interpretation. His claim that Paul anticipates Nicene Christology is anachronistic, tendentious, and methodologically c...

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Main Author: Holloway, Paul A. 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2022
In: The expository times
Year: 2022, Volume: 133, Issue: 7, Pages: 275-283
Further subjects:B anachronism
B theological orthodoxy
B Christology
B prepositional metaphysics
B Henotheism
B conservative Biblical scholarship
B Historical Criticism
B great angel
B Metamorphosis
B Teleology
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Summary:Gerald O’Collins’s insistence that scholars read Paul’s encomium to Christ in Phil 2:6-11 as anticipating later Christian orthodoxy confuses theological apologetics for historical interpretation. His claim that Paul anticipates Nicene Christology is anachronistic, tendentious, and methodologically confused. Phil 2:6-11 expresses a Jewish angel Christology, not a teleological foreshadowing of Nicene orthodoxy. A close reading of O’Collins’s essay is instructive at a number of levels.
ISSN:1745-5308
Reference:Kommentar zu "Does Philippians 2:6–11 present Christ as a superior angel? (2022)"
Contains:Enthalten in: The expository times
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/00145246221088367