Jesus Seminar

Jesus is most definitely a symbol of hope, however, we need a foundation for our faith. Having evidence about Jesus' life, teaching, and resurrection provides a firm foundation for our faith. The "Jesus Seminar" states that the Jesus of faith is merely just a symbol of hope that provides people with a good feeling and a sense of security, but it's not the real Jesus of history. Contrary to this statement, the Jesus of faith is the opposite and much more than the views of those from the "Jesus Seminar

One critique to the Jesus Seminar was the motives behind their work. The media often portrayed the group to be comprised mostly of former Christians, attacking hardest on the group’s leader Robert Funk and cochair John Crossan. Critics went as far to describe their meetings as having “the air of a village atheists’ convention” (Powell, 110). Such an allegation gave rise to the popular belief that the motives of the scholars were to get revenge on institutionalized religion for not being accepting

graduating, just stick it out and get your degree.” I listened to others while ignoring my inner voice and passion. Now fast forward to October 23-25th I ended up skipping student teaching to go into the city for Robert McKee’s Story and Storynomics seminar class. I consider myself a happy go lucky person who is a positive thinker and dreamer however on this particular day when my mom dropped me off at the bus station I was in a depressed state of mind. The night before I stayed in my bed didn’t eat

how much of an impact all the situations had on Saint Augustine. Therefore, being engaged in the reading, writing and asking the right questions, and using the discussion to further my understanding of the text was a strong lesson I learned from Seminar 2. In regards to the Critical Thinking learning outcome, I found that making the application and evaluation questions helped me most with

of an addendum as some believe, and that it does in fact provide a necessary conclusion to the Fourth Gospel, which does not merely end with the confession by Thomas, but offer a repetitive emphasis that the disciples will continue the witness of Jesus even after He has ascended to His Father, in addition to carrying out the mission

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

authenticity of Jesus, His claims, works and resurrection. This skepticism took a new turn when the Jesus Seminar took it upon themselves to study the authenticity of the Gospels and the historical accuracy of their contents. The article in Time magazine, Gospel Truth? by David Van Biema explores the arguments of the Seminar and the counter-arguments brought forth by Christians who defend the historical authenticity of the Gospels. My reading of the arguments put forward by the Seminar, have not found

STUDY OF THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW A No Travel Seminar Introduction: This is a summary of a No Travel Seminar on a Study of the Gospel of Matthew. The seminar was lead by Dr. John Dunaway who is a professor at NTS and has served as a pastor for over 50 years. After his brief self-introduction, he began his presentation with an overview of the Gospel of Matthew, followed by a more elaborated narrative summarizing the gospel, and he finished with brief closing remarks. Throughout this enthusiastic presentation

The Gnostic Gospels In this essay, I will discuss about the Gnostic Gospels. To discuss this matter, I will divide this paper in a few key points. The first is what Gnosticism is. The second is the Gnostic gospels miscellaneous literature and the last is the conclusion of the Gnostic gospels. What is Gnosticism? According to Bentley (1987): “ Gnosis derives from Greek, and connotes "knowledge" or the "act of Knowing ". (On first hearing, it is sometimes confused with another more Common

The ministry research project consisted of a six-week training session on servant leadership, based in part on the study material by C. Gene Wilkes, “Jesus On Leadership: Becoming A Servant Leader.” The project entailed a pre-test and post-test questionnaire, an inventory of spiritual/emotional maturity, a group 12 to 15 leaders, a two day seminar on spiritual leadership, the Joseph Hall method of meditation and Philippians 4:8 questions was explained and each participant was encouraged to utilize