Gospel Writing: A Canonical Perspective
Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- PART ONE: THE ECLIPSE OF THE FOURFOLD GOSPEL -- 1. Augustine's Ambiguous Legacy -- Perspectives Historical and Theological -- The Illusions of Harmony -- The Old and the New -- 2. Dismantling the Canon:...
| Summary: | Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- PART ONE: THE ECLIPSE OF THE FOURFOLD GOSPEL -- 1. Augustine's Ambiguous Legacy -- Perspectives Historical and Theological -- The Illusions of Harmony -- The Old and the New -- 2. Dismantling the Canon: Lessing/Reimarus -- A Controversy in the Making -- A Parable and a Proposal -- Against the Fourth Gospel -- The Lost Original -- PART TWO: REFRAMING GOSPEL ORIGINS -- 3. The Coincidences of Q -- Luke, Papias, and Gospel Origins -- Two Annunciations -- Q's Uncertain Start -- Mark, the Mount, and the Plain -- 4. Luke the Interpreter -- Rewriting Matthew -- A New Sayings Collection -- Luke's Matthean Sequence -- From Sayings Collection to Text -- 5. Thomas versus Q -- De-gnosticizing Thomas -- Thomas and the Sayings Collection Genre -- Before Mark -- 6. Interpreting a Johannine Source (Jn, GEger) -- Moses, Jesus, and Two Evangelists -- (i) Searching the Scriptures -- (ii) Moses the Accuser -- (iii) Moses against Jesus -- (iv) Moses' True Theme -- (v) A Hostile Response -- (vi) "As Moses Commanded" -- The Johannine Interpreter -- (i) Two Communities -- (ii) A Mosaic Stratum -- 7. Reinterpreting in Parallel (Jn, GTh, GPet) -- Modelling Reception -- Seeking and Finding -- The Crucified King -- Locating the Risen Lord -- PART THREE: THE CANONICAL CONSTRUCT -- 8. The East: Limiting Plurality -- Clement: The Inclusive Gospel -- Eusebius: Constructing the Boundary -- 9. The West: Towards Consensus -- Irenaeus: The Politics of Gospel Origins -- Rome and the Gospel from Asia -- Contested Beginnings -- 10. Origen: Canonical Hermeneutics -- Commentary as Pilgrimage -- Scripture's Firstfruits -- Gospel Difference -- 11. Image, Symbol, Liturgy -- On the Cherubim -- Jerome in Ravenna -- Imaging the One Christ In lieu of a Conclusion: Seven Theses on Jesus and the Canonical Gospel -- Bibliography -- Index of Patristic Authors -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Scripture and Other Ancient Texts |
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| ISBN: | 1467437654 |