I. Introduction—Indicating the Problem
II. Stages in the History of Thought on the Way to
Constructivism
1. Between Naïve Realism and Ontological Idealism
1.1 Epistemological Idealism
1.2 Epistemological Realism
1.3 Problems of Representation Theories,
Ontological Idealism
1.4 Linking Ontological Realism and
Epistemological Idealism
1.5 Further Problems of Realism's Correspondence
Theory
1.6 The Collapse of Logical Empiricism
2. On the Concept of Truth
2.1 Ontic Truth
2.2 Truth as Object-Subject
Correspondence
2.3 Subjective Truth
2.3.1 Truth Immanent in
Language, Propositional Logic
2.3.1.1 Coherence
2.3.2 The
Linguistic-Pragmatic Concept of Truth
2.3.3 The Pragmatic
Concept of Truth
2.4 Parallel Moves
toward the Subjective
III. The Brain as a Designer
1. Neurophysiological Arguments for
Constructivism
2. Does an External Ontic Reality
Exist?
3. The "Other," the "Self," and the Freedom of
the Will as Reality Constructed by the Brain?
4. Gaps between Scientific and
Everyday-Knowledge Constructs of Reality
IV. Objectivity as Intersubjectivity—The Interface with Sociology
of Knowledge
V. A Constructivist Sociology of Knowledge Model
VI. Implications for Theological Discussion
1. On the non-Absolute Character of Theological
Speech
2. Human Interaction with a Cognitive Model of
God?
3. Ontological Equality of Diverse Constructs of
Reality as a Prerequisite of Intercontextual Dialogue and
Competition
VII. Application of the Model to Early Christian Examples—The New
Reality of the Early Christians.
1. The Resurrection of Jesus
1.1 The Axiom of the
Early Christian Context
1.2
Presettings
1.3 The Axiomatic Laying
of a Foundation
1.4 Immediate
Organizational Implications
1.5 The Wider
Development of the Axiomatically Founded Context
1.6 An Argument within
the Discipline of History?
2. The Irrelevance of Worldly
Distinctions
2.1 The New Context of
Galatians 3:28 as Intersubjective Shared Reality
2.2 Commuters between
Two Contexts
2.3 A Defiant Escape
from the Two Worlds: The Revelation of John
2.4 Irenic Rapprochement
of the Two Contexts
3. The "New Creation" of the Human
Being
3.1 An Ontological
Proposition?
3.2 Evidence through
Cognitive Construction (Baptism)
3.3 Evidence through
Experience (Baptism, Experiences of the Spirit)
3.4 Evidence through
Repeated, Institutionalized Experience (Worship,
Eucharist)
3.5 Evidence through
Experience that Grasps All Participants of a Context and through
the Resultant Social Confirmation
3.6 Evidence through
Emotional Experience
4. The Eucharist
4.1 Chains of Cognitive
Constructions
4.2 All Sources of
Evidence
5. New Orientation of Behavior
5.1 The Indicative of
the Constructed Reality and the Imperative
5.2 Constructed Reality
in Performative and Descriptive Modes of Speech
5.3 The Ethos Resulting
from Paul's Theology of the Cross
6. A Swing Back— Jesus of Nazareth's
Proclamation of the Kingdom in Word and Deed
6.1 Jesus' Reality of
God
6.2 Sources of
Evidence
6.2.1 Sensory Perception and Emotional Experience
6.2.2 Social Confirmation
6.2.3 Cognitive
Construction as a Result of Hearing the Parables
6.2.3.1 The Basileia of God in the Tradition before Jesus
6.2.3.2 The Parable of the Leaven as a Case in Point
7. Prospects
7.1 Consequences for the
Historiography of Theology
7.2 Hermeneutical
Consequences
7.3 A Final Note on the
Concept of Revelation
VIII. Rather than ens intellectui concordat only intellectus
intellectui concordat? A Normative Sketch on the Concept of Reality
and on Intercontextual Competition in a Pluralistic Society.
IX. The Prospect for a Constructivist Theory of Historiography
X. Appendix to VII.1.2: Life after Death in Selected Texts in
Ancient Judaism
XI. Selected Bibliography
XII. Index
1. Index of Subjects and Persons
2. Index of References
The first book to apply constructivist theory to biblical studies
Peter Lampe is Professor and Chair of New Testament at the University of Heidelberg, Germany.
‘A fascinating approach to the New Testament.' - Dr. Eun-Geol Lyu,
Hoseo University, Korea
*Eun-Geol Lyu*
‘Convincing, profound, innovative and in its interdisciplinary
character courageous. The study casts new light on the New
Testament as a foundation document of the Christian concept of
reality.' - Dr. Christian Strecker in Theologische
Literaturzeitung.
*Christian Strecker *
‘A meritorious, important tool, abounding in perspectives. Lampe
shows how helpful it is to use constructivism for epistemological
groundwork—both in the dialogue between theology and other
scholarly disciplines, and in the inner theological discourse.
Worth not only to be read but to be studied.' - Dr. Michael Gärtner
in Pfaelzisches Pfarrerblatt, a journal for pastors.
*Michael Gärtner*
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