RELG 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Jesus, Holy Spirit, Lightning

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 210
• Professor: Frederick Tappenden

Document Summary

These titles indicate jesus" signi cance in early jewish/christian memory, and if they go back to jesus himself, and if they do, stye tell us about jesus" own self-identity. Did not denote divinity; just an anointed king, god"s servant. Could be a title that jesus openly rejected. Matthew 26-64 jesus said: if you said so. After the destruction of temple 50-70, the messiah message was pretty much in the air. It was not a prevalent discourse in jesus" life tine. John: the father/son relationship is central in john"s gospel ad jesus identi es himself as the son , no one has seen the father except the son. Son reveals the father: one step further beyond adoption. The synoptics: jesus is identi ed as son at his baptism (mark) and trans guration (thunder, lightning, but the title is rarely on the lips of jesus.