The Totalitarian Claim of the Gospels
Author : Dora Willson
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Page : 1356 pages
File Size : 44,28 MB
Release : 1885
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Author : Dora Willson
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Page : 1356 pages
File Size : 44,28 MB
Release : 1885
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Author : Dora Willson
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Page : 40 pages
File Size : 14,5 MB
Release : 1941
Category : Bible
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Author : Dora Willson
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Page : 652 pages
File Size : 13,38 MB
Release : 1975
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Author : C. E. Hill
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 30,25 MB
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0191624764
The Bible contains four Gospels which tell the story of Jesus of Nazareth. And yet, many more Gospels once existed. Who, then, determined which Gospels would, for the next two thousand years, serve as the main gateways to Jesus and his teaching? Recent books and films have traced the decision to a series of fourth-century councils and powerful bishops. After achieving victory over their rivals for the Christian name, these key players, we are now told, conspired to 'rewrite history' to make it look like their version of Christianity was the original one preached by Jesus and his apostles: the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John became the prime tools for their re-sculpting of the Christian story, leading to the destruction of previously treasured writings like the Gospels of Judas, Mary, and Thomas. Are the four canonical Gospels, then, in the Bible as the result of a great, ecclesiastical conspiracy? Or does this explanation itself represent another 'rewriting of history', this time by a group of modern academics? Who Chose the Gospels? takes us to the scholarship behind the headlines, examining the great (and ongoing) controversy about how to look at ancient books about Jesus. How the four Biblical Gospels emerged into prominence among their competitors is a crucial question for everyone interested in understanding the historical Jesus and the development of the Christian church.
Author : R. Joseph Hoffman
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,29 MB
Release : 2010-11-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 161592695X
While the public has easy access to religious literature on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, there is little opportunity for the general reader to assess the more skeptical works of biblical criticism. In Jesus Outside the Gospels, Professor Hoffmann argues that very little is known about Jesus apart from the Gospels. He contends that the Gospels were intended to establish not the history of Jesus, but his divinity. The four books, attributed to men called Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, were written some two generations after the events they intended to describe. Hoffmann analyzes and quotes extensively from non-biblical sources written 1,900 years ago, providing a picture of the man called Jesus that is quite different from the man portrayed in the Gospels. Sources analyzed at length are the Talmud, Josephus, and Tacitus, as well as Gnostic and Apocryphal Gospels. The author holds to a controversial view that the Gospels are in reality the missionary propaganda of a first-century messianic cult and are far from objective biographies or historical annals. Jesus Outside the Gospels is essential reading for anyone desiring a careful and critical study of the New Testament.
Author : Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr.
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,95 MB
Release : 2008-07-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0470374357
This Tragic Gospel suggests that the "Gospel" of John intended to supplant the first three gospels and succeeded in gaining undue influence on the early churches. This study focuses on the tragic moment when Jesus prays for deliverance from his impending death in the garden of Gethsemane. Ruprecht contends that John rewrote this scene in order to convey a very different dramatic meaning from the one reflected in Mark's gospel. In John's version, not only did Jesus not pray to be spared, he actually mocked this prayer, embracing his imminent demise with godlike confidence. Ruprecht believes that this dramatic reinterpretation undermined the tragedy of Jesus's death as Mark imagined it and so paved the way for the development of a kind of Christianity that focused far less on compassion in the face of human suffering. John's Jesus offers the faithful food so that they will never hunger, water so that they will never thirst, and the promise of a world in which no faithful person ever sheds a tear. Mark's Christians do suffer, but they witness to suffering and death differently...with compassion. Mark's Christ suffers, like all Christians after him, but he embodies a tragic hope in the promise of a faith shored up by love and compassion.
Author : Delber Harvey Elliott
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Page : 168 pages
File Size : 38,65 MB
Release : 1939
Category : Church and state
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Author : Graham Stanton
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Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,89 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
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Author : Lorne R. Zelyck
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Page : 296 pages
File Size : 30,23 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Apocryphal Gospels
ISBN : 9783161523991
How much influence did the Fourth Gospel have on the extra-canonical gospels from the second and third centuries CE? Lorne R. Zelyck explores the use and interpretation of the Gospel of John in the Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Mary, Gospel of Judas, Gospel of Peter, and seven other extra-canonical gospels from the second and third centuries CE. (Back cover).
Author : Kirby Page
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,87 MB
Release : 1941
Category : Christian life
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