Sentences with phrase «crucifixion narratives»

It must be recognized, indeed, that there are comparatively few narratives which correspond in any way to events in the ministry of Jesus, and that where such correspondence is to be found, as for example in the baptism or crucifixion narratives, the gospel account has been so influenced by the theological conceptions and understanding of the Church that we can derive little, if any, historical knowledge of that event from those narratives.

When D. E. Nineham comes to the words of the centurion in his commentary, he notes, «In a very real sense this verse rounds off not only the crucifixion narrative but the whole Gospel.»

I have followed what I take to be the general logic of classical christological reflection, using the crucifixion narrative of the Gospels to illustrate the way this faith is generated and nurtured.

The crucifixion narrative, like nearly everything else in the Bible, finally puts us on the spot.

Not exact matches

The historian said: «Familiarity with the biblical narrative of the crucifixion has dulled our sense of just how completely novel a deity Christ was.

Among these stories and events the one that stands out most dramatically and normatively for Christians is the Jesus story, and within that story the narrative of his crucifixion and resurrection is all - important.

But to think that this discovery makes not just the story of Eden but the narrative of the crucifixion and resurrection meaningless is to rather startlingly miss a point.

John, like the other three evangelists, accents the importance of the crucifixion and resurrection by giving these events a major place in the narrative; but unlike them he makes the divinity of Jesus so predominant over his humanity that the teachings presented take quite a different turn.

The links, which state that the women were observers from a distance at both the crucifixion and the burial, appear to be editorial additions made by a literary editor, rather than part of an original narrative from oral tradition.

Many scholars have consequently interpreted it as a resurrection narrative which has been read back into the earthly life of Jesus.34 Whether it stems from an actual experience of the disciples, or whether it is a symbolic account of the much more complex spiritual experience of the disciples after the crucifixion, it is very difficult to determine.

The narrative achieves its effect not only because the passion is seen in relation to the sequels — the earthquake and the resurrection — but also because the account of the crucifixion itself has been strikingly amplified by Luke and John, and the different versions are always fused together in the Christian's memory.

Take the familiar narrative of the crucifixion.

Even the fact that the baptism or crucifixion are historical events is not to be derived with any certainty from the gospel narratives; it has to be argued on other grounds.

«While the brute fact that of Jesus» death by crucifixion is historically certain, however, those detailed narratives in our present gospels are much more problematic.»

While you might simply expect this to lead to the familiar Easter narrative of Christ's brutal crucifixion and prophesied resurrection, this is where The Last Temptation most departs from the writings of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and where both Kazantzakis» novel and Scorsese's filming of it incense certain Christians.