Wolfhart Pannenberg in 1983 \u00a0(Wikimedia Commons public domain photograph)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Wolfhart Pannenberg (1928-2014) was one of the most prominent German Protestant theologians of the past century. \u00a0Herewith, I offer some passages extracted from Wolfhart Pannenberg, Jesus \u2014 God and Man<\/em>, 2d. ed., translated by Lewis L. Wilkins and Duane A Priebe (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1977):<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
[Werner] Elert rejected this approach, which asks why the \u201cpredicate\u201d of divinity has been \u201cconferred on\u201d Jesus, by pointing out that Jesus himself placed himself on God\u2019s side in his claim to authority. . . .<\/span><\/p>\nSimilarly to Elert, Paul Althaus says, \u201cThe authority that Jesus claims presupposes a nearness to God, a solidarity with him, that no other man has.\u201d \u00a0\u201cWhat Jesus does is blasphemy unless it comes from special authority. \u00a0He claims this authority for himself. . . . \u00a0For this reason God\u2019s forgiveness is a present event in his words of consolation in his eating with sinners.\u201d \u00a0(53-54)<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pannenberg addresses what he and other German New Testament scholars have called the \u201cantitheses\u201d of the Sermon on the Mount:<\/p>\n
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The \u201cbut I say to you,\u201d with which Jesus goes beyond the wording of the Torah, shows the authenticity of these words by their uniqueness. \u00a0However, Jesus does not only set himself set himself against the statement of another rabbi, in which case he would have to confirm his statement with Scriptural references. \u00a0Rather, Jesus sets his eg\u014d\u00a0<\/em>against and above the authority of Moses himself, without any kind of justification. \u00a0However, the authority of Moses himself, which Jesus here claims for himself, can be none other than the authority of God. \u00a0Thus, through his \u201cbut I say to you,\u201d Jesus makes himself the spokesman for God himself. \u00a0[Ernst] K\u00e4semann finds the same claim, \u201cwhich surpasses that of every rabbi or prophet,\u201d in the position Jesus takes toward the law about the Sabbath and the laws concerning purification. \u00a0The \u201camen\u201d [KJV \u201cverily\u201d \u2014 dcp] with which Jesus introduces his sayings is to be understood as an answer to a voice of God that speaks to him, or, in any case, as an expression of a \u201chighest and most immediate certainty, as it is given by inspiration.\u201d \u00a0(56)<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
[E]verything depends upon the connection between Jesus\u2019 claim and its confirmation by God. \u00a0(66, summarizing the argument of pages 53-66)<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
If Jesus has been raised, this for a Jew can only mean that God himself has confirmed the pre-Easter activity of Jesus.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\nJesus\u2019 claim to authority, through which he put himself in God\u2019s place, was, as we saw in the discussion of the antitheses in the Sermon on the Mount, blasphemous for Jewish ears. \u00a0Because of this, Jesus was then also slandered by the Jews before the Roman governor as a rebel. \u00a0If Jesus really has been raised, this claim has been visibly and unambiguously confirmed by the God of Israel, who was allegedly blasphemed by Jesus. \u00a0This was done by Israel\u2019s God. \u00a0A Jew \u2014 and for the moment we are speaking only of Jews \u2014 could certainly not take an event of this kind as one that came to be apart from the will of God. \u00a0That the primitive Christian proclamation in fact understood Jesus\u2019 resurrection from the dead as the confirmation of his pre-Easter claim emerges above all in the speeches in Acts [e.g., 2:36; 3:15; 5:30, etc.], and perhaps also in the old expression that Jesus was shown to be justified in the Spirit [e.g., 1 Timothy 3:16]. \u00a0(67-68, italics in the original)<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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