{"id":437,"date":"1994-01-01T22:00:36","date_gmt":"1994-01-01T22:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michael-welker.com\/?p=437"},"modified":"1994-01-01T22:00:36","modified_gmt":"1994-01-01T22:00:36","slug":"91-foreword-in-thomas-w-gillespie-the-first-theologians-a-study-in-early-christian-prophecy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michael-welker.com\/en\/91-foreword-in-thomas-w-gillespie-the-first-theologians-a-study-in-early-christian-prophecy\/","title":{"rendered":"91. \u201eForeword\u201c, in: Thomas W. Gillespie, The First Theologians: A Study in Early Christian Prophecy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>\u201eForeword\u201c, in: Thomas W. Gillespie, <em>The First Theologians: A Study in Early Christian Prophecy,<\/em> Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994, IX f.<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-dashed\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;border-color:#e0dede;border-top-width:1px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p>\u201cProphets\u201d and \u201cprophetic speech\u201d \u2013 until just a few years ago I accepted these expressions as substantively appropriate only with regard to the prophetic books of the Biblical traditions. By contrast, the general notion of \u201cprophecy\u201d, especially of contemporary \u201cprophecy\u201d, seemed to me always to smack of pretentiousness, moral self-righteousness, or even soothsaying.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-button-wrapper fusion-alignleft\"><a class=\"fusion-button button-flat button-medium button-lightgray fusion-button-lightgray button-1 fusion-button-default-span \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/michael-welker.com\/bibliographie\/welker_091.pdf\"><span class=\"fusion-button-icon-divider button-icon-divider-left\"><i class=\" fa fa-arrow-circle-o-down awb-button__icon awb-button__icon--default\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-button-text awb-button__text awb-button__text--default fusion-button-text-left\">Volltext (PDF)<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[224],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays","tag-biblical-theology-understanding-of-scripture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-welker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-welker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-welker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-welker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-welker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michael-welker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-welker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-welker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-welker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}