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How God Became King - 7b God and Caesar in the Gospels
How God Became King - 7b God and Caesar in the Gospels
by SPCK - N T Wright
God and Caesar in the Gospels But, you say, surely Caesar is only mentioned once in the gospels, and there Jesus says that there’s a clear division between God and Caesar, a split of church and state, so that never the twain shall meet…
How God Became King - 9e Kingdom, Cross and Church
How God Became King - 9e Kingdom, Cross and Church
by SPCK - N T Wright
Kingdom, Cross and Church The third speaker invites us to listen to one particular dimension of the music of the gospels. This dimension, we recall, highlights the story of Jesus heard as the story of the launching of God’s renewed people…
How God Became King - 10b The “Title” on the Cross
How God Became King - 10b The “Title” on the Cross
by SPCK - N T Wright
The “Title” on the Cross This leads us exactly to the ‘title’ on the cross. The Latin word ti tulus was used to describe the public notice that would be attached to the cross of a condemned criminal, indicating the charge that had led to this extreme verdict…
How God Became King - 11d Conclusion: How to Read the Gospels
How God Became King - 11d Conclusion: How to Read the Gospels
by SPCK - N T Wright
Conclusion: How to Read the Gospels My case throughout this book, then, is that we have all misunderstood the gospels. We have either followed the apparent implication of the great creeds and allowed ourselves to tell a pseudo-Christian story from which the story of Israel, on th…
The Minister as Entrepreneur - Introduction: Why ‘entrepreneur’?
The Minister as Entrepreneur - Introduction: Why ‘entrepreneur’?
by SPCK - Rowan Williams
Introduction: Why ‘entrepreneur’? I am a Christian minister. I am also an entrepreneur. Being an entrepreneur has rarely made me any money and in the context of this book, that is precisely the point. Here I shall instead be using the term ‘entrepreneur’ to refer to a way of bein…
the historical character of Jesus - 1b Sources for the study of Jesus
the historical character of Jesus - 1b Sources for the study of Jesus
by SPCK - David Allen
Sources for the study of Jesus At the outset of our discussion, though, it is probably worth establishing the purpose or value of an exercise such as this. After all, books on Jesus abound, not perhaps to the scale alluded to in John 21.25, but to a significant extent nonetheless…
the historical character of Jesus - 1 Introduction: locating Jesus outside the Gospels
the historical character of Jesus - 1 Introduction: locating Jesus outside the Gospels
by SPCK - David Allen
Introduction: locating Jesus outside the Gospels It does not take much exposure to Gospels studies, or to biblical scholarship more generally, before one encounters the term ‘historical Jesus’…
the historical character of Jesus - 3 “To know or not to know”: Jesus in Paul
the historical character of Jesus - 3 “To know or not to know”: Jesus in Paul
by SPCK - David Allen
“To know or not to know”: Jesus in Paul Whether because of the volume of NT literature attributed to him,1 or whether because his correspondence probably represents the earliest canonical witness to the impact of the Jesus movement, it is unsurprising that one looks to Paul as po…
the historical character of Jesus - 2 “The witnessed one”: Jesus in Acts
the historical character of Jesus - 2 “The witnessed one”: Jesus in Acts
by SPCK - David Allen
“The witnessed one”: Jesus in Acts Whatever one’s reason for so doing, the task of engaging with the book of Acts is fraught with interpretative questions. The discourse has two distinct textual traditions – the so-called Western and Alexandrian versions, with not insignificant v…
the historical character of Jesus - 4b Jesus in Ephesians
the historical character of Jesus - 4b Jesus in Ephesians
by SPCK - David Allen
Jesus in Ephesians The close similarity between Ephesians and Colossians is a well-established datum of NT scholarship. Ephesians shares, exceeds even, the emphasis on the exaltedness of Christ in Colossians and his supremacy over rulers, powers and authorities (Eph. 1.20 –23).15…
the historical character of Jesus - 6b James and the Jesus tradition