Sentences with phrase «synoptic problem»

This is known to Biblical scholars as the «Synoptic Problem,» and a vast deal of scholarly work has been done in an attempt to solve it.

The Jesus Seminar adopts the standard two - source theory as a solution to the synoptic problem: Mark is the earliest of the three synoptic gospels; in composing their gospels, Matthew and Luke used Mark along with a hypothetical common source Q (short for the German Quelle: «source»), consisting primarily of sayings of Jesus.

and not dealing with the synoptic problem is a weak and shallow faith... or actually, no faith at all.

There are occasional surprises: the book does not insist that Job was written by its namesake, and it even presents a brief overview of the synoptic problem.

Rudolf Bultmann, a leading New Testament form critic, has interpreted his work in «The New Approach to the Synoptic Problem» now included in his essays edited by Schubert Ogden, Existence and Faith — Meridian Living Age Books No. 29 [New York: Meridian Books, 1960]-RRB-.

One is still interested in Christ, but now one puts it differently: the student is interested in «Christology,» or «the doctrine of the incarnation,» or «the historical Jesus,» or «the synoptic problem.»

The question of the relationship of each of the Synoptic Gospels to the others, including their agreements and differences, is called the Synoptic problem.

Not exact matches

Some might find it more accurate to say that Paul teaches so - and - so albeit recognizing the problems reconciling his words with James and even Jesus himself.Also, many have come to think that because the words attibuted to Jesus in the fourth gospel are so unlike the synoptics that it's highly unlikey to be his actual speech (via translation) and what were likely reading is John's interpretation of who Jesus is.

In the article, Harrison discusses such «difficulties» in the text as problems with chronologies, differences in numbers, non-parallel accounts in the Gospels, the differences between John and the synoptics, and presumed error in the sources quoted (e. g.; Acts 7:4).

Even if the synoptic gospels appear to do so, that is only when they are read in the light of the historical problems which have arisen since their day, not when they are read in their original sense.

what's yr opinion on the differences between the synoptics and John if the following quote accurately describes the problem....

Then (3) in view of the further claim inherent in the nature of the synoptic gospel material (situation in earthly ministry of Jesus = situation in early Church's experience) we may apply historical knowledge of the teaching of Jesus directly to the situation of the believer in any age, always providing, of course, that we can solve the practical problems involved in crossing the barrier of two millennia and radically different Weltanschauungen necessary to do this.

The really important thing about Käsemann's essay is this challenge to a consideration of the synoptic tradition, for the problem of the historical Jesus is ultimately a problem for us because of the material in the synoptic gospels and the Acts of the Apostles.

One must investigate the theological significance of the very fact of the existence of the synoptic tradition, and the significance of its essential nature, in order to throw light on the problem of the historical Jesus.

At the academic level form criticism is the single most important development in the history of the discussion of our problem, for it provides what must be regarded as the only satisfactory understanding of the nature of the synoptic gospel material — satisfactory, that is, from the viewpoint of being able to explain the phenomena demonstrably present in the texts themselves.

There has been a recent emphasis in decadal - scale prediction, and also creating a marriage between climate and fields such as synoptic - dynamic meteorology... something relatively new (and a different sort of problem, than say, estimating the boundary condition change in a 2xCO2 world); as Susan Solomon mentioned in her writing, a lot of people have become much more focused on the nature of the «noise» inherent within the climate system, something which also relates to Kevin Trenberth's remarks about tracking Earth's energy budget carefully.

I know it is a diffilcult problem becuase the data is not synoptic, has various quality / discontinuity issues due to instrumentation, and is widely dispersed both vertically and laterally through the atmosphere, but would something along the lines of what is done with GIStemp or HadCrut for temp, or even, heaven forbid, using RegEM or some other multivariate technique, be a better way to reconstruct the humidty history than using a forecast model?