Sentences with phrase «messiahship as»

The meaning of the concept of messiahship as applied to Jesus must occupy us, at least briefly, later in this discussion.

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Ever since the publication in 1903 of Wilhelm Wrede's famous book on this subject, The Messianic Secret in the Gospels, scholars have been compelled to take seriously the thesis it set forth, namely, that the whole conception of the secret Messiahship is an intrusion into the tradition, either read into it by Mark or at a late pre-Marcan stage in the development of the tradition, and not really consonant with the story of Jesus as it was handed down in the earliest Christian circles.

And there are other suggestions of earthly, that is, nationalistic Jewish, Messiahship to be found in the old tradition — more fully elaborated in the other Gospels, especially, as we have seen, in Luke.

There was also tension between positive affirmations on the same side, as between John's conception of the miracles or of the Messiahship of Jesus, for example, and Paul's conception — or Mark's.

We have already noted that as early as Luke 2:41 - 52 the tension between suffering and Sonship is present; here the problem is the acceptance of a messiahship without suffering.

Bound together in fellowship by their common possession of the Spirit (Acts 2:38) and their common belief in the Messiahship of Jesus (Acts 2:36), they came naturally to worship and to «break bread» as a united body (Acts 2:42), and

Here, as elsewhere, he acts out, rather than explicitly describes, his lowly messiahship.

They showed themselves eager to make converts, though, living as they did in a predominantly Jewish environment, it was to their fellow - Jews that they first proclaimed the Messiahship of Jesus, the coming judgement (Acts 3:23), and the teaching that Jesus had given on how men should live.

Among these portraits of Christ, the Gospel of John assumes the Marcan thesis - or its equivalent — as proved, but ignores its corollary, the secret Messiahship; or rather, the secret is not the result of Jesus» purpose, but is due to the blindness and hatred of «the Jews.»

Though Jesus had not, it is true, announced himself to Israel as the Messiah, and had forbidden the demons to make him known — since they knew him» — and had even commanded his disciples to be silent about their recognition of his Messiahship, nevertheless, at the last, in the high priest's court, he had admitted unequivocally that he was the one who should sit at the right hand of the divine Power (God) and come with the clouds of heaven.

Thus C. F. Evans notes the possibility that «the concept of exaltation to the right hand of God... was prior to the idea of resurrection in establishing belief in Jesus» lordship and messiahship, for it leads directly to it, while resurrection from the dead, as such, does not».36

The explanation of this distinctive conception, scholars have suggested, is that Mark, fully convinced that Jesus was the Messiah, could find no clear evidence that he had presented himself as such to the Jewish nation; and the reason for this silence, Mark decided, could only be that Jesus was not yet ready to claim his Messiahship publicly and did not want the fact divulged prematurely.

The Gospels, of course, represent Jesus as being fully aware of his messiahship, but the fact that this awareness is more conspicuous in the later than in the earlier Gospels and, particularly, that in Mark the messiahship is a secret which at first no one and later only a few shared — this fact strongly suggests that the tradition that Jesus was conscious of being the Messiah developed in the church in response to its own faith in his messiahship, and does not truly represent Jesus» actual conception of himself.

At first, his Messiahship was thought of as beginning only with the resurrection, but very soon it was believed that he had been the Messiah throughout his career.

Mark of course distinguishes the stages of Jesus» preresurrection and post-resurrection Messiahship, but there is no trace in Mark of the Pauline terminology «according to the flesh» and «according to the Spirit» — not to mention the question whether or not Mark thought of Christ as pre-existent (probably not).

Schweitzer's first published work to deal with this theme was The Secret of Jesus» Messiahship and Passion, now more commonly known as The Mystery of the Kingdom of God, which appeared in 1901.2 However, his far more influential work appeared in 1906, The Quest of the Historical Jesus, 3 which is still read and quoted.

The Christian Yes to Jesus» messiahship, which is based on believed and experienced reconciliation, will therefore accept the Jewish No, which is based on the experienced and suffered unredeemedness of the world; and the Yes will insofar adopt the No as to talk about the total and universal redemption of the world only in the dimensions of a future hope and a present contradiction of this unredeemed world.

Such later developments and interpretations of the primitive belief and practice as we find in Luke, in Paul, in John — these followed in due course, and partly as the result of the transfer of leadership to Jerusalem; in particular the emphasis upon the idea of Jesus» Messiahship, as the future Anointed King of Israel, was characteristic of the Jerusalem outlook.

This Jewish category of Messiahship was not primarily metaphysical; it did not so much concern the essential nature of the divine missioner as his vocation; it could be applied on different levels — to one conceived as a «son of David» specially anointed to fulfil the divine purpose, or to one conceived as a preexistent being, come at last to earth to achieve God's will.

Two elements in discipleship that become obsolete are concentration on the historical Jesus as Messiah and the illusion of upward mobility which clouds the kingdom his Messiahship serves.

Hurtado opens by treating the «religious environment» of Jesus» day and then proceeds to examine the Pauline evidence of Christ's messiahship, the commonality of the Synoptic Gospels with the Gospel of John, and then the other early «Jesus books» (as the noncanonical accounts of Christ's life are called).

The latter seems the more probable in that Mark puts great emphasis upon the mighty deeds of Jesus as the only, but complete, demonstration of his messiahship, and it would be natural for him to omit the reference to some other sign, however that reference was to be understood.