Jesus and history

Jesus of History and The Christ of Faith 7 Discuss the distinction between the Christ of Faith and the Jesus of History. What are the implication did it have within our social location Introduction The purpose of the paper is to differentiate between Christ of faith and Jesus of history. New Testament biblical scholars from the 19th Century have been preoccupied by the notion of Christ of faith versus Jesus of History. Jesus of history can be described as the quest for historical Jesus, while

the Gospels according to Matthew and that according to Luke, Jesus’ birth and childhood is narrated. While both of these accounts mention Jesus as not only being the son of Joseph and his virgin wife Mary but also the Son of God, they also have numerous differences between the two. When compared and contrasted many scholars find historical inaccuracies between the two Gospels (especially when it comes to the birth and childhood of Jesus). That being said however, after a closer look at some of the

Explaining Jesus’ importance throughout history and throughout scripture is not easily done, but through this paper I am going to try and explain to an extent Jesus’ importance throughout history and scripture. The verse I am going to use is Philippians 2:5-11 which starts with talking about how Jesus was the very nature of God. This shows us that Jesus is one place that was truly holy were the Spirit of God wanted to dwell. Philippians 2:5b shows us that Jesus is fully divine but throughout his

The novel, “The Shadow of the Galilean,” written by Gerd Theissen is a fictitious narration attempting to depict the validity of Jesus, the gospel, and what is was like to live during the first century in Palestine through a historical perspective. The novel takes you on a dual journey not only with Andreas, but also with letters written from Theissen to his fictional reader Dr.Kratzinger. In the beginning of the “Shadow of the Galilean,” Andreas, a merchant from Sepphoris is incarcerated for attending

The Shadow of the Galilean: The Quest of the Historical Jesus in Narrative Form. By Gerd Theissen. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2007, 212 pp., $15.50. The writer, Theissen, truly engages the reader to really look at things in a more logical manner by painting a scenario of what life might have been like when Jesus walked among us. His use of descriptive language to describe locations and atmospheres, allows the reader to vividly recreate and see these images and feel as though you have traveled back

from God Himself. This light was sourced from God’s inner being. Jesus is the light

The contemporary “Historical-Jesus” is in a kyriarchal structure of domination which belittles feminism and Judaism. In Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza’s book, Jesus and the Politics of Interpretation, Fiorenza seeks to break the kyriarchal context in which Jesus is and “foster an identity crisis in the scientific self-understanding of the Historical-Jesus scholarship” (Fiorenza 2). Fiorenza, a professor at Harvard Divinity school, specializes in scripture and interpretation from a feminist perspective

In The Judaeo-Christian Tradition by Jack H. Hexter, the trial of Jesus is addressed in an unorthodox perspective. The trial of Jesus incorporates two trials: the Roman trial and the Jewish trial. In Hexter's book the Roman trial is addressed in great length while the Jewish trial is almost unaddressed. Hexter provides a perspective of the trial of Jesus with only one cause: the charge of sedition, for claiming to be king of the Jews. By using the four gospel texts, Hexter's view is illuminated and

the Gospel of John was the parable of the woman giving birth. It is important for me because it moves my mind back to my CPE experience at Tampa General Hospital last year. In the Gospel, Jesus is speaking of his departure and how the disciples would grieve, but then they would find joy. In speaking of this, Jesus added, “When a woman is in labor, she in anguish because her hour has arrived; but when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the pain because of her joy that a child has

The Shadow of the Galilean sheds light on the historical context of Jesus by showing how people of ancient Palestine received his message; then he shows how this illuminates the actions and sayings of Jesus by revealing that his most important teaching was that he was the son of God, and that while some aspects of his teachings were permissible or even attractive to members of both Roman and Jewish authority, the baggage of this claim was too much to carry. The major groups of the religious Jewish