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The Gospels And Christian Life reads the four canonical Gospels as
handbooks for religious formation through communal practices. The
book focuses on the communities that produced each gospel, the
dynamic energy each gospel displays for creating and sustaining
community life, the different interpretations of the person of
Jesus, and the different systems of organization and leadership
each gospel promulgated. The authors carefully describe the social
context of each Gospel and delineate the practices the texts
prescribe. Each gospel has an imaginative portal, an introductory
chapter introducing the necessary background for understanding the
social, intellectual, and religious setting for each gospel. Their
reading of each Gospel builds on these foundations to illustrate
the nature and scope of the community's practices. Their work
starts from the assumption that the communities did not look to the
Gospels for biographical data on the life of Jesus to offer the
reader a powerful reading of each Gospel community, its unique
practices, and the way people were trained to become members of it.
This book is aimed at undergraduate and graduate teachers and
students, pastors, and the general audience eager for new ways to
understand the New Testament.
The Gospels And Christian Life reads the four canonical Gospels as
handbooks for religious formation through communal practices. The
book focuses on the communities that produced each gospel, the
dynamic energy each gospel displays for creating and sustaining
community life, the different interpretations of the person of
Jesus, and the different systems of organization and leadership
each gospel promulgated. The authors carefully describe the social
context of each Gospel and delineate the practices the texts
prescribe. Each gospel has an imaginative portal, an introductory
chapter introducing the necessary background for understanding the
social, intellectual, and religious setting for each gospel. Their
reading of each Gospel builds on these foundations to illustrate
the nature and scope of the community's practices. Their work
starts from the assumption that the communities did not look to the
Gospels for biographical data on the life of Jesus to offer the
reader a powerful reading of each Gospel community, its unique
practices, and the way people were trained to become members of it.
This book is aimed at undergraduate and graduate teachers and
students, pastors, and the general audience eager for new ways to
understand the New Testament.
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