2014年7月13日日曜日

N. T. Wright on Jimmy Dunn

You can read NTW's Foreword to

Jesus and Paul: Global Perspectives
in Honour of James D. G. Dunn.
A festschrift for his 70th Birthday
(Library of New Testament Studies)

just by "Click to Look Inside" button.

(Warning: There are some differences as to how much you can read from the book's Amazon site. If you go by "Click to Look Inside" button, you can't read NTW's Foreword in full. But if you click the link at the top, you can read all. Or at least I could.)

Since the festschrift itself is priced at $133.00, those who are only interested in reading what NTW has to say about his senior NT scholar will find this time and money-saving.

In fact, it's quite amusing!
For example, NTW has this to say about differing interpretations of the identity of  the "wretched man" in Romans 7:
Ironically, I had already changed my mind by then on one of the things about which, when I first heard Jimmy lecture, I was most excitedly in agreement with him. I had been arguing for some time, against the majority, that the 'wretched man' in Romans 7 was Paul the Christian; here was a scholar senior to me, and a very lively thinker and lecturer, who set out the case as energetically as I had ever heard it, in his own Tyndale lecture of that year. Alas, by the time I completed my thesis I had come to see things very differently: not that I ever agreed with the normal 'majority' reading then prevalent particularly in Germany, but that I had tried to develop a different way again, taking into acount what seemed to me then, and still seem, fatal objections to the 'Christian' reading. Jimmy and I have not revisited that subject for many years now, but I still recall the amused frustration I felt on realizing that one of the things I thought I actually agreed with him on had now become yet another disagreement.
At any rate, even in these several pages of Foreword, you can get a good biographical data about and between the two of the most distinguished British NT scholars of our period.

2014年7月10日木曜日

アラン・バデューのインパクト

大和郷にある教会
ブログで紹介したこともある、
ベン・マイヤースのFaith and Theologyで、
Alain BadiouSaint Paul
が紹介されていたのが2007年8月。 
実に7年も前だ。

当時の彼はアラン・バデューの「発見」を興奮しながら何回かその後のブログで投稿している。
ベンは「聖パウロ」から以下を引用している。
“With Paul, we notice a complete absence of the theme of mediation. Christ is not a mediation; he is not that through which we know God. Jesus Christ is the pure event, and as such is not a function, even were it to be a function of knowledge, or revelation…. Christ is a coming; he is what interrupts the previous regime of discourses. Christ is, in himself and for himself, what happens to us. And what is it that happens to us thus? We are relieved of the law. But the idea of mediation remains legal…. [This idea is] a muted negation of evental radicality” (pp. 48-49).
Theology with Alain Badiouから。

2014年7月4日金曜日

フライブルグ大学でのライト

たまたま検索していたら、もう終わってしまったが、スイスのフライブルグ大学で、ライトをメイン講師とした神学会議(講演会と言うよりは大きい)があった。
Paul In History & Theology
N. T. Wright
2014年6月10-13日
at the Uiversity of Fribourg, Switzerland

神学会議のサイト

ドイツ語だけでなく英語でも説明等があるので興味深い。

神学会議のパンフレットが何ヶ国語かで用意されているが、英語のものダウンロード完了まで暫く時間がかかる) それによると会議期間中にアラン・バデューによるパウロのアンテオケ事件を題材にした演劇が上演されると言う。

なかなか手の込んだものになったようだ。

The Incident At Antioch (A Play Based On Alain Badiou)

Theater is event, is matter of state, is idea incarnated. With this premise that Alain Badiou wrote the play “The Incident at Antioch” in 1989. Therein he draws on motives from the life and writings of Paul the Apostle to come to terms with the political upheaval in Europe and shifts in his own world view.

Based on this play, students from the faculty of Freiburg (Switzerland) will organise an evening production, guided by the director Simon Helbling and the author Maja Tschumi. To bring Paul to the stage means to rediscover him in new ways. It is about encountering him at a place of relevance in the here and now, with body, voice, heart and mind engaged – not only in the conventional reading of his letters.

Badiou writes: “In the end, Paul himself teaches us that it is neither signs of power nor an exemplary course of life which matter. That which truly matters is the effect of a conviction – here, now and for ever.”

It is a play about the transformative power of a conviction, which can act politically - lapsing into neither riot nor conformity - to change the world. A trans-formative power that is Paul.