Incarnational Spiritualities: The Gospels

Introduction

 

The greatest innovation of the New Testament is not the ethical behaviors Jesus advocates or even his teachings about the kingdom, most of which have parallels in Second Temple Judaism.  It is rather the belief that God became human, was crucified and raised from the dead.  How do we understand the life of the historical Jesus and the nature of the Christ?  What is the significance of God become flesh for our attitudes towards our bodies, towards other humans, towards God?

Notes

 

Reading

• Scripture: The Gospel of Matthew
  
  
• Secondary: Borg, Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time

 

Notes

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Bibliography

 

Collins, John J.  The Scepter and the Star: The Messiahs of the Dead Sea Scrolls and OtherAncient Literature, ABRL.  New York: Doubleday, 1995.

 

Donahue, John R.  The Gospel in Parable: Metaphor, Narrative, and Theology in the Synoptic Gospels.  Philadelphia: Fortress, 1988.

 

Hilkert, Mary Catherine.  "The Human Story and the Story of Jesus: The Emmaus Narrative."  In Naming Grace: Preaching and the Sacramental Imagination (New York: Continuum, 1997) 92-5, 215.

 

Nolan, Albert.  Jesus Before Christianity.  London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1977.

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