The Notebooks of Schubert Ogden

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I've objected to a formulation of Marxsen's that is, as I've put it, "dangerously Die Verfasser aber gehen von einer Wirklichkeit aus. Sie sind nach Karfreitag zum Glauben an Jesus gekommen. Das stellen sie durch Veranschaulichung dar. Aber sic wollen mit dieser Veranschaulichung nichts anderes sagen aIs: Wir sind zum Glauben gekommen. Weil sie von dieser Wirklichkeit ausgehen, haben sie nun die Moglichkeit, die Veranschaulichung dieser Wirklichkeit unterschiedlich durchzuftihren, ohne daB ihnen dabei ein Widersprueh empfunden v.'Urde. Man kann eben dieselbe Wirklichkeit untersehiedlich veranschauliehen. Ieh errinere dazu an das Nebeneinander der Vorstellungen von Auferstehung und Erhohung_(Die Auferstehung Jesu von Nazareth: 160)._ Marxsen's point about our anachronism in dealing with such texts is well taken. But, once again, his "nichts anderes" is the offending member. Were it right, the "iUocutionary load" of the authors' confession would be reduced, in effect, to expressing the expressive, "We believe.

That Marxsen himself recognizes this is clear from other formulations such as the following: " [D]as Reden von der Auferstehung Jesu [ist] ein Interpretament, das ausdrucken will: Mein Glaube hat ein Woher; und dieser Woher heWt Jesuslt (145; cf. 112, where he explains "daB der Glaube ein Woher hat, das Woher aber bei Gott liegt"). Even more telling is his summary judgment about all the "Vorstellungen" whereby having come to faith is formulated: ItDas II But, of course, precisely in expressing that expressive, they also assert a constantive to the effect that certain things were the case because of which (and only because of which) they have the right to express their belief as, in its way, both cognitively significant, and true. Bekenntnis zur Wirklichkeit des extra nos des erfahrenen Glaubens ist die Konstante; variabel aber ist die Vorstellung, derer sich das Bekenntnis bedient" (150). What is constant, in other words, is not simply, "We have 2come to faith," but "The faith to which we have come has its ground in reality outside ourselves. "

15 May 2008

elliptical" and fails to do justice to what even he himself understands by the resurrection

(cf. Notebooks, 1 May 2008). Another such formulation occurs in the following statement about the authors of New Testament texts confessing, or asserting, Jesus' resurrection. Marxsen is objecting in his statement to the anachronistic way in which we deal with their texts when we infer that, because what they assert didn't happen as they say it did, it has no reality.

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