From: Maggie Hettinger (hettingr@iglou.com)
Date: Thu Oct 17 2002 - 11:51:59 BST
This, to me, relates strongly to MOQ.
I value MOQ for the fact that it points out the social level and its
invisible power. Early Christianity (and good liturgy today) seems to
be a situation in which the social and intellectual are highly charged
and working together.
maggie
On Thursday, October 17, 2002, at 03:40 AM, Elizaphanian wrote:
> Hi Maggie,
>
> Thanks for this, you are quite right it is misleading to describe them
> as
> anonymous. In fact much academic criticism is devoted to describing the
> communities which developed each gospel (especially John) as they are
> clearly shaped by an early church, and their devotional needs.
>
> Sam
> www.elizaphanian.v-2-1.net/home.html
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Maggie Hettinger" <hettingr@iglou.com>
> To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 2:42 AM
> Subject: Re: MD Jesus
>
>
>> Thank you, Sam. Good starting point.
>>
>> On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, at 05:49 PM, Elizaphanian wrote:
>> <snip> they all describe various events in Jesus'
>>> life, particularly stories about healing, and include passages of
>>> Jesus'
>>> teaching, often in parables; they all describe Jesus' subsequent
>>> trial
>>> and
>>> crucifixion, and then conclude with an account of the resurrection;
>>> importantly, they are all anonymous.
>>
>>
>> "anonymous" to most people today simply implies that no one claims the
>> writing.
>>
>> I think it's significant that the gospels have an an identity that
>> is
>> very different than "anonymous." Rather than being claimed by
>> no-one, they were claimed, owned, created by a large number of people.
>> These works were "preached," long before they were recorded, and
>> preaching, at its best (as it probably was in early Christianity) is a
>> unique form of group communication that has very high awareness of
>> community (shared language, meanings that are repeated, filtered,
>> condensed and refined into the language of prayer and chant) and at
>> the
>> same time has a very high infusion of individuality and intellect,
>> evidenced by the leadership of particular people using (at the time
>> of
>> the early Christians) the new techniques of Greek intellectualism.
>>
>> maggie
>>
>>
>>
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