RELG 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Nicene Creed

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 204
• Professor: Ian H Henderson, Hadi Fakhoury, Steven Lapidus

Document Summary

Argument that the primary funcion of scripture is as tesimony to jesus, for understanding jesus, the place of revelaion is within jesus, the texts are about jesus, jesus is the revelaion. In contrast, moses is important as a messenger to transmit god"s torah to israel, he is an instrument to spread the torah to humans, the purpose is torah, not moses, he is the agent of transmission. *exam quesion: jesus-> bible quran-> hadith torah-> : analogous. All 3, say that the purpose of revelaion is to make known that we are human. God enjoys creaing, something exists because he wants it to: god likes creaing. All 3 religions, god wants to communicate to humanity, In chrisianity, the writen word of god is subordinate to the totality of jesus; incarnate. Jesus is the uncreated word of god: everything is created, the bible is created: the word of jesus in the gospel are both his words and what his followers remember.