This book was written as a protest against the demythologizing
tendencies which characterize so much contemporary theology: it
questions the assumption that the New Testament can be understood
in terms other than its own. In particular the author is
dissatisfied with the interpretation of the miracles that such
theology can give. In his submission, a theology which
acknowledges, and then fails to take account of, or strips away
altogether, the demonological thought-world into which the miracle
stories are woven, results in only a partial estimate of their
significance. Here the miracles are restored to their context, seen
in perspective as historical happenings, and considered in relation
to Jesus central theme of the Kingdom.
In this book, written a half century ago, Kallas flew full force
into the face of the prevailing way of interpreting the New
Testament. While scholarship as a whole was convinced that the New
Testament had to be modernized, stripped of its archaic and
medieval language or the church would lose it audience, Kallas
argued in the opposite direction, insisting that while a rewrite of
the New Testament would salvage our audience, we would have nothing
to tell them for the gospel would have been emasculated. Fifty
years of flaccid flawed pap has proven him right and has demanded a
reprint of this his first book.
James Kallas has had an extraordinary life. A veteran of the U.S.
Navy at age 14, later one of St. Olaf Colleges greatest athletes, A
Phi Beta Kappa key winner, a Fulbright and Rockefeller Scholar, a
private pilot; and a former pro football player with the Chicago
Bears. He was on the founding faculty of California Lutheran
College (now University), and went on to be President of Dana
College in Blair NE. It was for his work at Dana that he was
knighted by the Queen of Denmark. In this book, written a half
century ago, Kallas flew full force into the face of the prevailing
way of interpreting the New Testament. While scholarship as a whole
was convinced that the New Testament had to be modernized, stripped
of its archaic and medieval language or the church would lose it
audience, Kallas argued in the opposite direction, insisting that
while a rewrite of the New Testament would salvage our audience, we
would have nothing to tell them for the gospel would have been
emasculated. Fifty years of flaccid flawed pap has proven him right
and has demanded a reprint of this his first book. James Kallas has
had an extraordinary life. A veteran of the U.S. Navy at age 14,
later one of St. Olaf College's greatest athletes, A Phi Beta Kappa
key winner, a Fulbright and Rockefeller Scholar, a private pilot;
and a former pro football player with the Chicago Bears. He was on
the founding faculty of California Lutheran College (now
University), and went on to be President of Dana College in Blair
NE. It was for his work at Dana that he was knighted by the Queen
of Denmark.
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