The Holy Spirit chose as the language of the New Testament revelation the colloquial language of everyday people, not an ancient classical idea. The modern insistence upon the supremacy of the King James Version of 1611 represents a reversal of the action of the Holy Spirit by insisting that for us the best idiom for the word of God is not the modern colloquial idiom, but the ancient classical language of Shakespeare.

— George Eldon Ladd (1911–1982), Professor für Neues Testament und Theologe

George Eldon Ladd

George Eldon Ladd (1911–1982) war ein US-amerikanischer baptistischer Theologe und lehrte von 1950 bis 1980 als Professor für Neues Testament am Fuller Theological Seminary in Kalifornien. Er prägte im evangelikalen Raum das Konzept der inaugurierten Eschatologie, die das Reich Gottes als „schon jetzt, aber noch nicht vollendet“ versteht, und grenzte sich dabei scharf vom Dispensationalismus ab. Für Bibelleser bietet seine heilsgeschichtliche Theologie bis heute ein weit verbreitetes exegetisches Referenzmodell zum Verständnis neutestamentlicher Reich-Gottes-Texte.

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