these stories only demonstrate strained similarities (in that they speak of the death and life of a being). It is also not likely the New Testament writers were mimicking later writings of dying and rising gods due to the second century appearance of the “resurrection” in the myths...
1) the exclusivity logion (Matt 10:5b-6) and Matthean salvation history; (chap. 2) the genealogy; (chap. 3) the infancy; (chap. 4) the centurion and the sons of the kingdom; (chap. 5) the Canaanite woman in context; (chap. 6) the Great Commission ; (chap. 7) the rejection...
It was also directed by another director, a French director Jean-Pierre who I have to give kudos to, as he did a fine job in delivery. The CGI and the effects in this installment was better than all previous 3 put together, and it has to be said even though this is not better than...
it happened in their hearts and minds, not as a matter of history. To read the Resurrection accounts literally is to misunderstand the use of the symbolic language that was the hallmark of 1st-Century Jewish writers,
Sir James Frazer ( 1922 ) in his Golden Bough had much to say about these resurrected man-gods. Many resurrection stories, such as that of the Canaanite Baal, were associated with agriculture, particularly with periods of drought followed by periods of fertility. In ... 展开 出版时间: ...
Prince Mirsky’s discussion inA History Of Russian Literature, incisive as usual: Resurrectionis not a perfect work of art: the moral idea, profusely supported by texts from the Gospels, is not organically fused into the fabric. The story of Nekhlyúdov’s conversion is on an inferior plane ...
Published in 1970, Jill Freedman’s "Old News: Resurrection City" documented the culmination of the Poor People’s Campaign of 1968, organized by Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and carried out under the leadership of Ralph Abernathy in the wake of Dr...
Christian theologians of later centuries developed these stories into a theology of salvation and linked resurrection to the idea of death being Gods punishment for Original Sin. By doing so, they changed the Gospel of Jesus into the Gospel about Jesus. Currently, people have a different ...
I once overheard Mr. Yam in the faculty lounge talking to a junior colleague, one of the legion of bright young women who annually enter the ranks of American public education only to marry or burn out within three years. He was explaining to her the process he had deduced whereby all th...
26. “The whole point of the Resurrection stories – and the Resurrection itself – is that we don’t recognize Jesus when he comes back to us.”― Jay Parini 27. “Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It’s not unique to Christianity.”―Deepak Chopra ...