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Christianity: Theme 1 - Coggle Diagram
Christianity: Theme 1
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2 Views of Jesus
John Dominic Crossan
- Jesus as the social revolutionary using apocryphal gospels
- In order to understand Jesus, you need to understand eschatology - not an understanding of end-times but the eschaton would be the 'Great Divine Clean-up of the World' -- Rulers + their kingdoms = overthrown by God; Jesus was challenging the ideology of Empire through non-violent means
- Jesus = 'peasant Jewish Cynic' - Jesus was a product of his time -- Crossan didn't believe that Jesus saw himself as the Messiah
- He relies on Strata sources - documents written from AD 30-60 - because he dates the New Test. from AD 70-90, he does not accept them
His criteria for historical accuracy is multiple independent assentation; something must be attested to in more than one independent source . As Paul wrote most of his letters, Crossan didn't accept these as historical truths.
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N.T Wright
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- Seeks to find the best explanations for the traditions found in the Gospel
- that must keep learning about the real Jesus - he maintains that being a Christian requires learning about the history and challenging false beliefs
- Translates Jesus' msg today ; to be the bearers of God's redeeming love and of his creative stewardship
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