The Authority of Christ in the New Testament
In any religion unique authority is assigned by its adherents to the words of its founder, whether written by the founder himself or narrated of him by others; and Christianity is no exception to the rule. The circulation in the Primitive Church of Sayings of Christ is an indication that this was so...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[1957]
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New Testament studies
Year: 1957, Volume: 3, Issue: 2, Pages: 83-92 |
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| Summary: | In any religion unique authority is assigned by its adherents to the words of its founder, whether written by the founder himself or narrated of him by others; and Christianity is no exception to the rule. The circulation in the Primitive Church of Sayings of Christ is an indication that this was so from very early days. Dr Dibelius has given reasons for believing that the words of Jesus were collected at an early date explicitly as words of the Lord, and therefore inspired; that these collections were definite as regards both their authority and their limits; and that they were almost certainly in Greek; for no trace has been found of any written Aramaic tradition, unless we suppose that Papias had such a collection in mind in what he wrote (about A.D. 140) about St Matthew's Gospel. If the document known as Q existed, then it was such a collection, perhaps the most authoritative of several. |
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| ISSN: | 0028-6885 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: New Testament studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0028688500023584 |