The Change of Concern in New Testament Scholarship in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Abstract

The Christian religion is grounded in something given. Christian faith has its origin not in general religious experience, not in some particular esoteric mysticism, not in dogma but in a particular series of events in history. The Church knows that she is founded upon the "foundation of the Apostles and Prophets," who point beyond themselves to a "revelation" which has taken place in and through history. The Church, therefore, is founded upon the message of the Bible.