Theologie als Erzählung im Markusevangelium

Christian Rose examines the image of God in Mark. Whereas in the past the relationship between Christology and theology has often been determined by theology, the narrator in Mark develops an image of God from the opposite perspective by talking of Jesus Christ. Thus the oldest Gospel depicts a certain form of narrative theology: »theology as a narrative,« and for this reason the author uses questions pertaining to narrative criticism and reader response criticism for his analysis of the text. Since the beginning of a narrative forms the basis for the entire text, the author also studies Mark 1:21-28; 2:1-12; 9:2-13 and 15:33-41 in addition to Mark 1:1-15 in order to show the references within the whole narrative. In doing so, he demonstrates that due to the deliberately polyvalent wording of Mark 1:1 not only Mark but Jesus Christ himself has to be regarded as a narrator of God's Gospel (Mark 1:14ff.).