La bible dans l'histoire 4 Isaiah s Implications for a Pluralistic World from a Korean Perspective von Se-Hoon Jang 1. Auflage Jang schnell und portofrei erhältlich bei beck-shop.de DIE FACHBUCHHANDLUNG Peter Lang Bern 2005 Verlag C.H. Beck im Internet: www.beck.de ISBN 978 3 03910 597 7
Table of Content Preface IX Abbreviations XI Introduction 1 Part I Situating the Thesis Chapter 1 The Korean Churches and Religious Pluralism 9 1. Contemporary Christians facing religious pluralism 11 1.1. Religious pluralistic voices in today s world 11 1.2 Conservative evangelical responses to pluralism 19 2. The Korean Churches as a battlefield for debates on pluralism 30 2.1. The challenge of Korean religious pluralism 32 2.2. The conservative responses to Korean religious pluralism 43 3. Evaluation 53 Chapter 2 The Korean Churches and Iconoclasm 55 1. Christian iconoclasts and the destruction of Buddhist images 56 1.1. Idol breaking and incendiarism 56 1.2. The deep chasm between Christianity and Buddhism 56 2. Vandalism of the images of Tangun 58 2.1. The Hanmunhwa Movement Federation of Korea and its Tangun project 58 2.2. Churches response to the Tangun project 59 2.3. Vandalistic attacks on the images of Tangun 60
VI Part II Situating My Reading of Isaiah in the Larger Methodological Debate Chapter 3 Strategy for Reading Isaiah 67 1. Wholistic Reading of the Book of Isaiah in Recent Research 67 1.1. The traditional approach 69 1.2. The redactional critical approach 73 1.3. The canonical approach 79 1.4. The literary approach 85 2. My approach to the book of Isaiah as a whole 90 2.1. Beyond a historical-critical reading of Isaiah 90 2.2. My reading of the book of Isaiah as a thematic unitary whole 95 2.3. Hear the Word of God! 101 2.4. Reading Isaiah in a pluralistic Korea 107 Part III Chapter 4 The Holy One of Israel 117 1. God s Holiness and Israel s unholiness 118 2. Israel s obligations: Justice and Righteousness 120 3. The Holy One of Israel as Redeemer 122 4. The unique relationship of the Holy One to Israel 126 5. The Holy One of Israel as Restorer who renews all the earth 128 6. Implications 130 Chapter 5 The monotheistic manifesto of Isaiah 135 1. Recent scholarship on the origin of monotheism in ancient Israel 136 2. Monotheistic precursors 141 2.1. Jacob 141 2.2. Moses 142 2.3. Gideon 144 2.4. Elijah 144 2.5. The monotheistic monarchs of Judah 145
Table of Content VII 3. Isaiah s monotheistic promulgation 147 3.1. Yahweh s incomparability 148 3.2. No other god 151 3.3. The hollowness of idols 152 4. Implications 154 Chapter 6 The unique role of Torah in Isaiah 157 1. What is the Torah? 158 2. The distinct role of Torah in the book of Isaiah 160 2.1. The Torah as the teaching of God 160 2.2. The Torah as the divine decrees to effect the eschatological peace 161 2.3. The Torah as the criterion of God s judgment on immoral Judah 163 2.4. The Torah as the everlasting word for a future time 164 2.5. The Torah as Yahweh s justice 165 3. Implications 168 Chapter 7 Mount Zion as the Cosmic Centre 173 1. Mount Zion as the world governmental centre 174 2. Zion as a cosmic refuge for the faithful 176 3. Zion as the universal paradise 178 4. Zion as the cosmic sanctuary of eschatological worship 180 5. Implications 182 Chapter 8 The New Creation 185 1. The newness of Israel as a New Creation 186 1.1. 43:1 7 187 1.2. 44:1 4 189 1.3. 51:9 11 190 2. A new heaven and a new earth as a New Creation 191 3. The new lifestyle in a New Creation 193 4. Implications 197 Chapter 9 The New Israel 199 1. Egypt and Assyria as God s people 200
VIII 2. A new people of God and a universal worship 202 3. The priesthood of the non-israelites 203 4. Implications 205 Conclusion 209 Bibliography 215