English summary: The New Testament scholar Gerd Theissen discusses criticism of his contributions to New Testament research by a dialogue with his critics in Neutestamentliche Grenzgange. He summarizes his contributions and positions. Then he discusses his interpretation of the Early Christian religion as a semiotic cathedral, the postminimalism of Jesus research, within the social history of Early Christianity the cynic influence on itinerant charismatics and the pauperistic explanation of Early Christianity, the danger of anachronisms in a Psychology of Religion, the phenomenology of religious experience and practical theology. He outlines the state of his unfinished project of a comprehensive evolutionary interpretation of biblical faith. This volume gives an impression of the contemporary discussion of some of the main topics in New Testament research. German description: In diesem Buch nimmt der Autor Gerd Theissen das Gesprach mit kritischen Stellungnahmen zu seinen Arbeiten auf, die in dem Sammelband Neutestamentliche Grenzgange veroffentlicht wurden. Theissen fasst seine bisherigen Arbeiten in einem Werkbericht zusammen. Diskutiert werden dabei die Theorie der urchristlichen Religion, die Jesusforschung, die Sozialgeschichte des Urchristentums, die Literaturgeschichte des Neuen Testaments, die Religionspsychologie und die praktische Theologie. Am Ende stellt Theissen sein Projekt einer evolutionaren Deutung der christlichen Religion vor. Es entsteht so ein exemplarisches Bild der gegenwartigen neutestamentlichen Exegese.
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