eBooks - Religion & Spirituality - Christianity - Thomas E. Gill - New Testament Studies
New Testament Studies eBook
by Thomas E. Gill
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New Testament Studies Summary
| Gill's New Testament Studies examines several historical facts, such as (1) events in the life of Jesus are a composite of events drawn from a dozen messianic extremists in Josephus' writings; that theologians must reject as untenable "Jesus as the Christ" given (2) Jesus was never considered divine or even "a messiah" by Jews. Jesus favored the self-designation "Son of Man," implying he rejected the Petrine identity of himself as a messiah; the fact that (3) the textual sources ("allegorical mappings") of Mark now include the miracles of Homeric texts, the theology of Pauline texts, fulfillment messianic prophecies of Old Testament texts, and Apologetics and Events from Josephus' texts; the biographical fact that (4) the author of Mark must be someone not unlike Cerinthus, adoptionist, chiliast, docetist, Gnostic. The "empty tomb" implies a rejection of Resurrection theology, while Transfiguration prefigures a "wantabe" mystical ascension like that of Elijah (and Moses), but the forsaken Jesus, pinned to a cross, failed to ascend like Elijah; the fact that (5) theological discussion on the topic of Resurrection must be broadened, placing Gnostic texts on equal footing with New Testament texts; Gill agrees here with James Robinson that the dating of such texts has "just begun"; and the fact that (6) "Spirit cannot suffer," then and now, is a form of docetism, bearing upon theological reexamination of Immortality of the Soul, Jesus as a man, martyrdom, and "suicide bombings." |
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