SMC330Y1 Chapter 4: Borg & Wright Reading - chapter 4 summary
21 Nov 2012
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Pre-easter: jewish mystic (healer, wisdom teacher, social prophet, movement initiator) Post-easter: christian messiah (exalted, messiah, son of god, bread of life ) Jesus is both -> claim as historian and christian. History metaphorized - early christian movenet"s witness to what. Jesus thought he was messiah, and he was right. Jesus thought he was messiah and he was wrong. Jesus didn"t think he was messiah, so wasn"t messiah fact literalism/fundamentalism. Whether he thought or not, is messiah. Borg chooses last, wright choose first; agree jesus is christian messiah, disagree about messianic self-understanding in self- awareness. Believe unable to make affirmation because flow directly out of taking seriously that gospels are dev tradition, and mixture of history remembered and metaphorized. In mark messianic self-claim not part of jesus"s own message . Jesus is both son of god and messiah jesus never accepted or rejected peter"s you are the messiah! told him to say nothing about it.
