RS110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Carmelites, First Vatican Council, Classical Antiquity

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RS110
• Professor: Peter Frick

Document Summary

Give a mental anchor to establish important aspect of religion. Christ comes back to jesus of nazareth. Way of cross is tied to jesus. Below this are things that scholars may wonder if written by paul or not. Book that"s similar to jewish books- apocalyptic imagery. New testament is appraisable of coming of messiah. If religion is based off text: issue of hermeneutics. Can be false: dangerous to see christianity as religion. Better thing to say is jesus is responsible for giving shape to christianity faith. Have to make distinction between faith and religion. Sources: synoptic gospels (mark, matthew and luke) and gospel of john. All 3 gospels describe life of jesus. Mark is oldest gospel (70 ce- destruction of temple) Matthew and luke (90 ce) use mark as a source, and have one additional source used as the letter q . Our sources about life of jesus go back to gospels.