T1 - religious figures and sacred texts Flashcards
what are the similarities between Matthew 1-2 and Luke 1-3?
- Jesus christ conceived by holy spirit (pathogenesis)
- Joseph and Mary engaged but not married
- Jesus was born in Bethlehem (city of david)
what are the differences between Matthew 1-2 and Luke 1-3?
- Matthew - unnamed angel appears to joseph Luke - angel Gabriel appears to Mary - Matthew - wise men luke - shephards - Matthew - Joseph's viewpoint Luke - Mary's viewpoint
what is redaction criticism?
the theory that new testament writers altered existing material about jesus to suit their own agenda
what else do people do with the accounts of the birth narrative?
Harmonise them
What is incarnation?
God becoming flesh in Jesus
What does this doctrine express?
the belief that jesus christ was God in human form
What do people assert about the incarnation?
that jesus christ was both fully God and fully man (human and divine)
`he is fully human…
as he was a man of flesh and blood, born as any other person and does what humans do
he is fully God…
as he’s believed to have existed since the beginning of god, his appearance on earth was only brief
What do christians believe about the resurrection?
christians believe that following his death on the cross, jesus rose again from the dead and for a period of 40 days appeared to many of his followers
What did the disciples do?
they began to preach that God had raised him from the dead, thus proving that he was the Messiah
What happened in John 20?
- john ‘saw and believed’
- Mary comes to believe when she hears jesus call her name
- john says that those who read this evidence believe
- the five episodes form what’s known as a chiasm
- we are told that jesus breathed on the disciples and said to them ‘receive the holy spirit’
What happened in John 21?
divided into 3 sections: 1)Jesus appears to the disciples by the sea of galilee 2)Jesus commissions Peter to shepherd his people 3)John’s testimony confirmed
what does Rudolf Bultmann describe as myths?
Jesus’ virgin birth and resurrection. he thinks the resurrection was a story made to sustain faith
where does preaching originate?
from that rise of belief in the disciples
