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Book Reviews : Eleventh-Century Orthodoxy

To be warmly recommended is Marianne Meye Thompson’s The Promise of the Father (Westminster John Knox Press, 2000, n.p., pp. 196, ISBN 0-66422197-1 ). Subtitled ’Jesus and God in the New Testament’, it is an examination of the significance of Jesus’s address of God as ’Father’. Basic to the book is the feminist critique of the alleged implications of this, but the argument ranges more widely to be an important contribution to any discussion of the significance of Jesus’s usage both for him and for us. Jeremias’s position (and some misunderstandings of it) is discussed judiciously and issue is taken with the assertion that Jesus’s form of address gave voice to his experience which issued in a new insight into God and his dealings with humankind. Jeremias also gave eschatological significance to this form of address, and it is this understanding which Thompson develops to such good effect. The Old Testament’s assertion of the fatherhood of God denoted his action of calling his people into being, his continuing care for them, and his claim to their honour and obedience. Jesus makes use of this