RELG 204 Lecture 3: RELG 204 - Lecture 3 (Christianity)

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 204
• Professor: Charles Douglas Fletcher

Document Summary

Summarising the canonical jesus: some titles for jesus: christ, son of god, prophet. Jesus taught about and embodied the kingdom of god/heaven, and he did so through stories and pithy sayings. Jesus was a healer who restored people"s physical and social well-being. Jesus"s significance is found in the claims of his death and resurrection: that jesus came proclaiming a message of god, and the rulers of this world subjected him to death. Jesus calls his disciples to a life of discipleship: the church saw four distinct portraits of jesus in the four gospels. The value of the four field gospel tradition: It was a gospel harmony, which put forward a single narrative around jesus constructed from the four canonical gospels. Reception: initially received by the broader church, but in the 5th century it was deemed heretical and Finish this: we had to make choices, the church did not just see one portrait, rather they saw many.