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What difference does scholarship on the historical Jesus make for
the way we think about the meaning of Christian faith in the
twenty-first century? In "The Historical Jesus Goes To Church,
biblical scholars--Fellows of the Jesus Seminar--speak directly to
the ways in which new knowledge of the Jesus of history requires
and enables us to think differently about the significance of Jesus
and about the reliability and authority of the Bible. They also
imagine what these new understandings imply for public worship,
preaching, prayer and practice, and life in community. These
articles evoke the spirit of Paul, Christianity's first theologian,
who like us found himself standing at the intersection of two eras
and knew that he had to let go of his past if he hoped to have a
future.
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Profiles of Jesus (Paperback)
Robert W Funk, Roy W. Hoover, Marcus Borg, Kathleen E Corley, John Dominic Crossan, …
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R679
Discovery Miles 6 790
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Can the authentic words and deed of Jesus identified by the Jesus
Seminar furnish a sufficient basis for a credible profile of the
Jesus of history? That is the challenge faced by the contributors
to this volume. Their efforts have resulted in a unique collection
of studied impressions of Jesus. Here readers will see not Jesus
the icon of myth and creed, but a provocative young man of
first-century Palestine whose vision and determination to live the
vision gave birth to a new form of faith and changed the course of
history.
There were four different portraits of Paul in the early church:
the non-authoritarian Paul of the great Letters, the authoritarian,
misogynist Paul of the Pastoral Epistles, the frenetic missionary
who single-handedly introduced Christianity to the Mediterranean
world, and the proto- Gnostic Paul of Marcion and the Gnostic
commentaries on Paul s letters. Which is the real Paul? The
Christian church opted for the Pastoral Epistles, and so read Paul
letters through that lens. But that image has become so problematic
in the modern world that many contemporary readers are either put
off by Paul or simply ignore him. But was Paul really such a
frightful figure? In providing a fresh reading of Paul s authentic
letters, the SV translators have attempted to liberate his words
from those of Augustine, and later Martin Luther, who used Paul to
cover their own guilty consciences. This Augustinian-Lutheran
tradition of interpreting Paul s discourses about justification by
faith as a way of dealing with their own sense of moral failure,
for instance, represents but one way of translating Paul s letters.
The Greek of Paul s writings can be understood rather differently
so that Paul s message is not about personal guilt, but about the
trustworthiness of God, and Jesus courageous faith in God as a role
model for others. This is how Paul s letters are translated in this
book. Here readers will encounter a very different view of Paul and
his message.
There were four different portraits of Paul in the early church:
the non-authoritarian Paul of the great Letters, the authoritarian,
misogynist Paul of the Pastoral Epistles, the frenetic missionary
who single-handedly introduced Christianity to the Mediterranean
world, and the proto- Gnostic Paul of Marcion and the Gnostic
commentaries on Paul s letters. Which is the real Paul? The
Christian church opted for the Pastoral Epistles, and so read Paul
letters through that lens. But that image has become so problematic
in the modern world that many contemporary readers are either put
off by Paul or simply ignore him. But was Paul really such a
frightful figure? In providing a fresh reading of Paul s authentic
letters, the SV translators have attempted to liberate his words
from those of Augustine, and later Martin Luther, who used Paul to
cover their own guilty consciences. This Augustinian-Lutheran
tradition of interpreting Paul s discourses about justification by
faith as a way of dealing with their own sense of moral failure,
for instance, represents but one way of translating Paul s letters.
The Greek of Paul s writings can be understood rather differently
so that Paul s message is not about personal guilt, but about the
trustworthiness of God, and Jesus courageous faith in God as a role
model for others. This is how Paul s letters are translated in this
book. Here readers will encounter a very different view of Paul and
his message.
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Once and Future Faith (Paperback)
Robert W Funk, Karen Armstrong, Don Cupitt, Arthur J Dewey, Lloyd Geering, …
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R638
Discovery Miles 6 380
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Many ideas once thought to be foundational to Christianity are now
known to be false due to scientific discoveries regarding the
nature of the universe and historical findings about how
Christianity began. Is Christianity doomed to irrelevance or even
extinction? How might Christianity reinvent itself so that it can
address the real concerns of people in today's world? This
collection of essays from such leading thinkers as Karen Armstrong
and John Shelby Spong addresses questions such as life after death,
the meaning of God, apocalypticism, and the significance of Jesus'
death. Contributors: Karen Armstrong, Don Cupitt, Arthur J. Dewey,
Robert W. Funk, Lloyd Geering, Roy W. Hoover, Robert J. Miller,
Stephen J. Patterson, Bernard Brandon Scott, John Shelby Spong
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