Theology

Ursula Ulrike Kaiser

Die Rede von »Wiedergeburt« im Neuen Testament

Ein metapherntheoretisch orientierter Neuansatz nach 100 Jahren Forschungsgeschichte

[The Talk of »Rebirth« in the New Testament. A New and Metaphorically-Oriented Approach after a Century of Research History.]

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Ursula Ulrike Kaiser studies »rebirth« in the New Testament, showing for the first time that there is a great lack of clarity about it as a subject of research.
Ursula Ulrike Kaiser studies »rebirth« in the New Testament, showing for the first time that there is a great lack of clarity about it as a subject of research. This stems from its uncritical mixing as an »idea« and an »object«, and which, in terms of metaphor theory, corresponds to a commingling of source domain and target domain that often leads to concepts actually belonging to description language being imposed on the source text. In contrast, the author shows that with a consistent approach to verbal expressions of rebirth and a metaphor-oriented exegetical methodology, a clear number of New Testament texts can be distinguished, which use, strictly speaking, not rebirth but birth/procreation as a conceptual domain to metaphorically elaborate the event of coming to belief in Christ in a creative and differentiated way.
Authors/Editors

Ursula Ulrike Kaiser Geboren 1971; Studium der Ev. Theologie und der Neueren deutschen Literatur in Berlin und Bern; 2005 Promotion; 2016 Habilitation; 2016–18 Akademische Rätin am Institut für Ev. Theologie der Universität Duisburg-Essen; seit 2019 Professorin für Biblische Theologie und ihre Didaktik am Institut für Ev. Theologie und Religionspädagogik der TU Braunschweig.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6425-5318

Reviews

The following reviews are known:

In: Arbeitskreis für evangelikale Theologie — https://rezensionen.afet.de/?p=1338 (Jürg Buchegger-Müller)
In: Theologische Literaturzeitung — 145 (2020), S. 69–71 (Angela Standhartinger)
In: New Testament Abstracts — 63 (2019), S. 370–371
In: Bulletin for Biblical Research — 31 (2021), S. 253–255 (Robert W. Yarbrough)
In: Revue de l'histoire et de Philosophie Réligieuses — 99 (2019), S. 558–559 (Christian Grappe)
In: Biblische Zeitschrift — 66 (2022), S. 135–137 (Hans-Ulrich Weidemann)