Robert H. Gundry

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Robert Horton Gundry (born October 15, 1932 ) is an American biblical scholar. He received his BA and BD degrees from Los Angeles Baptist College and Seminary . In 1961 he received his PhD from the University of Manchester ( Ph.D. ). Gundry taught New Testament and New Testament Greek at Westmont College in Santa Barbara , California for several decades . He dealt extensively with eschatological questions ( Second Coming of Christ , Great Tribulation ).

Gundry became a prominent member of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) and in this context also signed the Chicago Declaration on the Inerrancy of the Bible . His commentary on Matthew's Gospel (1982) earned him the charge of questioning the inerrancy and taking positions critical of the Bible.

Works

Books on eschatology

In 1973 Gundry published The Church and the Tribulation: A Biblical Examination of Posttribulationism . In 1977 he followed up with First the Antichrist: Why Christ Won't Come Before The Antichrist Does , which was devoted to the discussion about the time of Christ's return.

The Matthew Commentary

In 1982 he published his commentary on Matthew ( Matthew: A Commentary on His Literary and Theological Art ). In this work, Gundry made editorial- critical considerations. In this way he tried to show that Matthew had adapted the story of Jesus to the expectations of his intended readers. Some Gundry's thesis that Matthew made unhistorical additions to the childhood story of Jesus (Matthew 1 and 2) appeared particularly problematic . Gundry had been asked to contribute this volume as a Matthew commentary for the Expositor's Bible Commentary , one of the great evangelical commentary series of the 1970s and 1980s. However, Gundry's comment was rated unacceptable by the publisher, Frank Gaebelein, and Gaebelein refused to publish it. In his place, Donald A. Carson of the Trinity Evangelical Divinity School was hired to write a commentary on Matthew.

Gundry argued that his work did not deny the inerrancy of the Gospel of Matthew. Rather, “inerrancy” must be viewed in the light of literary intent. Matthew confronts the reader with "history that is mixed with elements that cannot be called historical in a modern sense." So the book of Matthew should not be measured against standards that modern historical historiography must meet in order to make it "inerrancy" to be able to call. On the other hand, "Luke expresses a historical intention in a sense that comes closer to modern historiography". Gundry's point of view was supported by a significant part of the ETS. The ETS Council took up the matter and first gave Gundry its placet . Nevertheless, a successful campaign was launched against Gundry, led by Norman Geisler. In December 1983, Gundry withdrew from the ETS. Later there was a rapprochement (see below: Church political attitude ).

Synoptic question

Gundry's contribution to the synoptic question consisted in proving that Luke must have known the Gospel of Matthew, which runs counter to the current two-source theory.

Introduction to the New Testament

Gundry's Survey of the New Testament was published in its 5th edition in 2012. The book is designed as an introduction to the New Testament for theology students and as a guide for self-study.

Church political attitude

In the autumn of 2001 Gundry expressed in his lecture "Jesus the Word According to John the Sectarian" at the ETS in view of the secularization tendencies that "our circumstances call for the Christology of the word of John, for a 'sectarian' The turn of evangelicalism, a return - mutatis mutandis - to the fundamentalism of the 'Fundamentals' and their authors precisely at the beginning of the 20th century. "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Robert H. Gundry, Scholar-in-Residence . Westmont College . 2002. Retrieved February 6, 2013.
  2. ^ Robert H. Gundry: The Church and the Tribulation: A Biblical Examination of Posttribulationism. Zondervan Publishing: Grand Rapids (MI) 1973.
  3. ↑ Tommy Ice: Robert Gundry. In: Who's Who of Prophecy. Archived from the original on May 31, 2009 ; accessed on February 6, 2013 .
  4. ^ Robert H. Gundry: Matthew: A Commentary on his Literary and Theological Art. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company : Grand Rapids (MI) 1982, ISBN 0-8028-3549-X , p. 623.
  5. ^ Robert H. Gundry: Matthew: A Commentary on his Literary and Theological Art. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company: Grand Rapids (MI) 1982, ISBN 0-8028-3549-X , p. 628.
  6. ^ Leslie R. Keylock: CT Classic: Evangelical Scholars Remove Robert Gundry for His Views on Matthew. In: Christianity Today . 47, November 2003, accessed November 28, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Robert H. Gundry: Matthean Foreign Bodies in agreements of Luke With Matthew Against Mark. Evidence that Luke Used Matthew. In: The Four Gospels 1992. FS Frans Neirynck (Vol. II), Leuven 1992, pp. 1467-1495.
  8. ^ Robert H. Gundry: A Survey of the New Testament: 5th Edition , Zondervan Publishing: Grand Rapids 2012. 4th ed. 2003, 3rd ed. 1994, 2nd ed. 1981, 1st ed. 1970.
  9. ^ Robert H. Gundry: Jesus the Word According to John the Sectarian. A Paleofundamentalist Manifesto for Contemporary Evangelicalism, Especially Its Elites, in North America. Wm. Eerdmans Publishing, Grand Rapids, 2002, ISBN 0802849806 .
personal data
SURNAME Gundry, Robert H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gundry, Robert Horton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American biblical scholar
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1932