Richard Bauckham

Richard J. Bauckham ( born September 22, 1946 in London) is an Anglican theologian and professor of New Testament. He believes that rely heavily on the Gospels eyewitness accounts. His book, Jesus and the eyewitnesses (2006; German: Jesus and the Eyewitnesses ) won several prizes (see below Awards ) and left in the professional world a strong impression.

• 5.1 As editor

Career

After attending school in London Bauckham studied at the University of Cambridge, where he took history at Clare College (1966-1972) and the degree of Ph.D. acquired, with his study of operating in Cambridge Puritans William Fulke ( 1538-1589 ). Also at Cambridge, he became a member of St. John 's College ( 1972-1975 ). He then taught for a year theology at the University of Leeds and from 1977 to 1992 at the University of Manchester, where he was first a lecturer and then professor of history of Christian thought. During this period, his research interests shifted increasingly toward New Testament and its environment, in particular in the direction of ancient Judaism and extra-canonical early Christian literature.

In 1992 he was appointed to a professorship of New Testament studies at the University of Saint Andrews. In 2007, he joined an early stage - as a 61- year-old - to retire to concentrate on his research and its publication. With his former university, the project connects him to the publication of other Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. Part-time, he was " General Editor" (Editor), Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series ( 1996-2002).

He is a Senior Scholar at Ridley Hall College, Cambridge and a visiting professor at St. Mellitus College in London. Bauckham is an Anglican theologian, but not an ordained priest. He was for several years the " Teaching Committee " ( " Doctrine Commission" ) of the Church of England.

Research and teaching

Bauckham published mainly in the field of New Testament and early Christian research. A special focus is on the Jewish Christianity. He explored the relationship of Jesus, and dealt with a central Christological question of how the early church, which initially consisted mostly of Jews, Christians, ie from strict monotheists, came there to call Jesus "Lord." Bauckham described the Named Women in the Gospels. He studied the book of Revelation, wrote a commentary on 2 Peter and Jude. In addition, Bauckham looked at the Bible thematically in terms of politics and ecology. Overall, published Bauckham about 20 books as sole author and more than 200 articles.

Gospels: based on eyewitness reports

One focus of Bauckhams research concerns the historicity of the Presentation of Jesus in the Gospels. Some of his lectures ( " The Gospels as history: comparisons with ancient and modern historiography " ) were published in the Scottish Journal of Theology. He argues for the historiographical character of John's Gospel. He illuminates the features of Jewish- biographical history. His identification of the occurring in the Gospel of John, the beloved disciple with the presbyter John, Bauckham considers the following Papias for the author of this Gospel, but was met with disbelief. Bauckhams book on the Gospels as testimonies of eyewitnesses (2006) attracted considerable attention especially in conservative New Testament scholars. In it, Bauckham the Gospels in the context of ancient history. Based on Papias says Bauckham that Mark wrote down memories of Peter even during his lifetime. Peter has passed on the tradition of the words and deeds of Jesus in the form of Chrien, that is as short, consciously shaped individual pieces as they had defined from Alexandria in his Progymnasmata about Theon. In the Gospel of John Bauckham sees the "we" form at the beginning (John 1:14-16 EU) and at the end ( Jn 21.24 to 25 EU) as an expression of the right to witness the highest authority. These exist in ancient historiography parallels, for example, Dionysius of Halicarnassus on the eloquence of Demosthenes.

Ecological Theology: Bauckhams "green" interpretation of the Bible

Bauckham considers the statements of the Bible in regard to environmental issues as important. In theology it is in the ecological ethics of the relationship between humanity and the rest of creation. Bauckham sees the obvious in biblical texts task of man in relation to nature not as a rule ( " dominion "), but as an administrative ( " stewardship "). He emphasized in an article that deals with the influential article by Lynn White on the historical roots of our ecological crisis (The historical roots of our ecological crisis, 1967). Summarized this and other of his earlier articles on the topic Bauckham in an anthology together, which appeared in 2012; the subtitle of the band speaks of a Green Exegesis (green exegesis ).

In his book published in 2010, The Bible and Ecology ( The Bible and Ecology ) he speaks of the "Community of Creation" ( community of creation ). Bauckham sees the Bible in addition to the bid on the people to rule ( Gen 1:26 28 EU) are many more aspects to the theme of ecology. He follows a tradition that sees humans as companions ( "fellow - creatures" ) of the other creatures of God. In this tradition, such as acts Albert Schweitzer's " reverence for life " on.

According to Bauckham, the book of Job teach people humility before the mysteries of the universe of the Creator. And nature psalms show the beauty and the non-human creation, and how much God rejoice in it. God's salvation concerns the whole of creation; it does not go only for that people are put into the sky. The predominant in Christianity long time Platonism had the Hebrew view that the physical world is good displaced.

Bauckhams working out the broad biblical basis for a community of creation was recognized. However, there was criticism that he neglected other biblical aspects in addition to this strong emphasis: The peculiarities of humans compared to animals, evil in nature, or the primary connection of man to God and other people ( even more than to animals ).

Memberships

• Member of the British Academy
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Awards

• 2007 Christianity Today Book Award in Biblical Studies for Jesus and the eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony
• 2009: Michael Ramsey Prize for Jesus and the eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony
• 2010: Franz- Delitzsch- Award for The Jewish World around the New Testament

Writings (selection )

• Tudor Apocalypse. Sixteenth -century apocalypticism, millenarianism and the English Reformation, Sutton Courtenay Press: Apple Ford in 1978.
• 2 Peter, Jew ( = Word Biblical Commentary, 50 ), Thomas Nelson: Nashville ( Tennessee) in 1983.
• The Bible in Politics. How to Read the Bible Politically, SPCK (UK ), 1989, 2nd edition 2010, John Knox Press, Westminster ( USA) 2011.
• The Theology of the Book of Revelation, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge 1993, ISBN 978-0-521-35691-6.
• The Theology of Jürgen Moltmann, T & T Clark: London 1995.
• James. Wisdom of James, disciple of Jesus the sage (New Testament Readings ), Routledge: London, New York, 1999.
• Gospel Women. Studies of the Named Women in the Gospels, London, New York, 2002.
• Bible and mission. Christian Mission in a Postmodern World, Grand Rapids ( Michigan), 2003, ISBN 9-780801-027710.
• The Testimony of the Beloved Disciple: Narrative, History, and Theology in the Gospel of John, Baker: Grand Rapids ( Michigan) 2007, ISBN 080103485X.
• The Jewish world around the New Testament. Collected Essays, Vol I., Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen 2008.
• Jesus and the God of Israel. God Crucified and Other Studies on the New Testament 's Christology of Divine Identity, Wm B. Eerdmans: Grand Rapids ( Michigan) 2008, ISBN 978-0-8028-4559-7.
• The Bible and Ecology. Rediscovering the Community of Creation ( Sarum Theological Lectures ), Baylor University Press, Waco (Texas ), 2010.
• Jesus. A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press: Oxford 2011, ISBN 0-19-957527-4.
• Living with Other Creatures. Green Exegesis and Theology, Paternoster Press: Milton Keynes (UK) 2012, ISBN 978-1-78078-023-8.

As editor

• The Book of Acts in its First Century Setting. Vol IV: The Book of Acts in its Palestinian Setting, Carlisle and Grand Rapids ( Michigan) in 1995.
• The Gospels for All Christians: Rethinking the Gospel Audiences, Eerdmans: Grand Rapids ( Michigan) and T. & T. Clark: Edinburgh 1998.
• God will be All in All: The Eschatology of Jürgen Moltmann, T. & T. Clark: Edinburgh, 1999.
• With Carl Mosser: The Gospel of John and Christian Theology, Eerdmans: Grand Rapids ( Michigan), 2008.
• Daniel R. Driver, Trevor A. Hart, and Nathan MacDonald: A Cloud of Witnesses: The Theology of Hebrews in its Ancient Context, T. & T. Clark ( Continuum ): London, 2008.
• Daniel R. Driver, Trevor A. Hart and Nathan MacDonald: The Epistle to the Hebrews and Christian Theology, Eerdmans: Grand Rapids ( Michigan), 2009.