Biblical literalism a gentile heresy : a journey into a new Christianity through the doorway of Matthew's gospel
"In this profound work, bestselling author and the former Episcopal Bishop of Newark John Shelby Spong offers a radical new way to look at the gospels today. Pulling back the layers of misunderstanding created over the centuries by Gentile ignorance of things Jewish, he reveals how a literal re...
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New York, NY
HarperOne
[2016]
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Inhaltsangabe:
- PART I: How the gospels came to be written: the litrugical year of the synagogue as the organizing principle
- Stating the problem, setting the stage
- Setting Jesus into the context of history
- The oral phase: entering the tunnel of silence
- Discovering the clue that organized the synoptic gospels
- Matthew's dependency on Mark
- PART II: From after Passover to Shavuot: birth to early ministry
- Genealogy and birth
- Joseph: myth or history?
- The magi and their gifts: an original sermon?
- Herod and Pharaoh: Jesus and Moses
- The baptism of Jesus: Moses relived
- Into the wilderness: forty days, not forty years
- PART III: Shavuot and the Sermon on the Mount: Sinai revisited
- Jesus' return to the symbolic Sinai
- The Lord's Prayer: taught by Jesus or composed by the church?
- PART IV: Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur: miracles and teaching
- Jesus' journey from Shavuot to Rosh Hashanah
- Matthew's introduction of Jesus as a miracle worker
- Matthew's take on the work of the kingdom
- PART V: Yom Kippur: the challenge of atonement theology
- Introducing Yom Kippur: the Day of Atonement
- Demystifying the unforgivable sin: Matthew's story at Yom Kippur
- The curse of atonement theology
- PART VI: From Sukkoth onward: the new harvest
- The symbols of Sukkoth and the food that satisfies hunger
- The beheading of John the Baptist
- Loaves and fishes, walking on water: Moses stories expanded
- Two characters, two insights
- PART VII: Dedication-Hanukkah and Transfiguration: the light of God reinterpreted
- Dedication: the return of the light of God
- The Transfiguration: a Dedication-Hanukkah story
- PART VIII: Journey toward Passover: apocalypse and judgment
- Introducing the journey section of Matthew's gospel
- The heart of the journey
- Apocalypse now: the final judgment
- PART IX: Passover and passion: the climax
- The climactic events of the passion narrative
- Probing the passion narrative for interpretive clues
- The passion narrative as liturgy
- PART X: Matthew's Easter story: a new perspective
- Easter dawns: myth or reality?
- Matthew's call to life