The Meaning of Jesus
A Study in Holy Manners
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| SUMMARY. Seeing Jesus: Sources, Lenses, and
Method - Marcus Borg. Click HERE.
"How do we know about Jesus? What are our sources, what are they like, and how do we use them? For most of the Christian centuries, the answers to these questions seemed obvious. Our sources? The New Testament as a whole, and the four gospels in particular. ... the gospels were seen as historical narratives... |
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| SUMMARY. Knowing History: Faith and History.
W.T. Wright. coming |
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| Revolutionary leadership by Wayne Holst Sifting the realities of the person of Jesus of Nazareth from the accumulation of myth and legend about him may raise some questions about leadership styles for our time and culture. Recent liberal biblical scholarship has put the scriptures under close scrutiny. Its perspectives examine the historic, social, and political contextualization of the biblical record and use modern literary and critical textual methodologies to assess and get to the root (the original meanings) of the biblical sources. Contextualization takes seriously the particular local cultures out of which the biblical story has emerged. Click HERE for article in PMC (The Practice of Ministry in Canada) |
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| Debate in Orlando.The Meaning of Jesus Six scholars explain why they study the origins of Christianity--and why it matters. ... it wasn't only the subject that drew a crowd in Orlando; it was the lineup on the panel: Marcus Borg, N. T. Wright, Elaine Pagels, John Dominic Crossan, Karen King, and Richard Hays, ranging in conviction from evangelical orthodoxy (Wright, Hays) to the Jesus Seminar. Here, assembled in one place, were some of the leading figures in the renewed quest for the historical Jesus, sitting at the same table with other New Testament scholars whose work to some degree intersects with theirs. The Orlando panel was the brainchild of HarperSF editor John Loudon, who brought the group together and presided over the event. What follows is an edited transcript. Click HERE for the transcript. It includes a little bio on each person. |
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In continuing pursuit of the real,
historical,
unknown Jesus - Patrick Marrin. If churches can be seen as true communities of resistance to what is wrong in the dominant culture, if our Eucharist can be the communal meal that commits us to justice for all, we may escape judgment and find life. The historical Jesus and the Christ of faith need no more scholarship to confront us more clearly. Patrick Marrin is editor of Celebration, NCR’s sister publication. National Catholic Reporter, November 6, 1998 For the whole article click HERE. |
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| Click HERE to visit The New Testament Gateway, the web directory
of internet resources related to the New
Testament. This comprehensive, up-to-date and user-friendly
site has won several awards and it features:
Everything from the Greek New Testament to
Jesus in Film Every link carefully selected
Every link annotated Fast Search facility
Frequently updated, the latest developments
here include expansions of several sections
of The New Testament Gateway: Greek New Testament
Gateway Historical Jesus Celluloid Jesus: The Christ Film Web Pages
. And now: The Synoptic Problem and Q . Paul the Apostle Women and Gender Scholars
and Societies Mark Goodacre, The New Testament Gateway, http://www.ntgateway.com, accessed on 1 October 2000. University of Birmingham |
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| ABCNEWS’ Peter Jennings Reporting: The Search
for Jesus is a journalist’s exploration of the historical
figure of Jesus. The two-hour documentary
will provide extensive insights into the
2,000-year-old story of Christianity and
the man whose life continues to inspire devotion
and debate. In this Web version of The Search for Jesus, we invite you to interact with the story and to engage in discussion with others who may or may not share your views. The multimedia presentation features video excerpts from the television special plus original content created specially for the Web. Click HERE to visit. |
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| Historical Jesus project by Susan Polege (a student planning to be
a pastor) Click HERE to visit. My reason for studying the historical Jesus scholarship is because I wanted to see what Jesus' message seemed to be originally. I wondered if Jesus considered himself divine, and if he considered himself the sole spiritual Messiah for all people. I wondered about the reliability of the texts, the Biblical writings and writings that didn't make it into the canon. I wanted to know the roots of these and other "Christian" views that the Church has clung to for so many years, and often used tyrannically to persecute others. I wanted to see what was timeless and good in these Christian ideas, or if Jesus turns out to be too historically and culturally entrenched to be of use to the contemporary Christian church in the world. |
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| Why the Historical Jesus Matters. Although theologically orthodox Christians
must keep their critical faculties alive,
they also approach Scripture with a hermeneutic
of trust. This is irritating to nonbelievers
and radical critics, who see no reason to
treat the Bible any differently than any
other book. But (as Thomas Oden argues10)
if God decides to offer salvation to human
beings through Jesus Christ; and if Jesus
Christ is primarily mediated to people of
later generations via written texts; then
it follows that God will not allow the testimony
of those texts to be massively misleading
or false. Stephen T. Davis, Ph.D. is professor of philosophy and religion at Claremont McKenna College and visiting professor at both Fuller Theological Seminary and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. from the June 1999 issue of Theology News and Notes, Copyright 1999 Fuller Theological Seminary Click HERE for full lecture. |
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| The lack of relevant evidence outside the
gospels makes them the necessary starting-point
of any investigation of the historical Jesus.
In the first century or so after the death
of Jesus there are very few references to
Jesus in non-Christian literature. This paper proceeds on the assumption that the earlier evidence is to be preferred. This is not to deny, however, that some authentic tradition about Jesus may have been preserved outside the New Testament. Click HERE for a lecture by Professor R. T. France "The four canonical gospels are indispensable." |
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