RELIGST 3B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Synoptic Gospels

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 3B03
• Professor: P Widdicombe

Document Summary

What the early church concluded about christ as saviour: He must be fully god for only god can save-(cid:862)god (cid:271)e(cid:272)a(cid:373)e (cid:373)a(cid:374) i(cid:374) order that (cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:373)ight (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)e god(cid:863) (cid:894)o(cid:374) the i(cid:374)(cid:272)ar(cid:374)atio(cid:374) (cid:1009)(cid:1008), atha(cid:374)asius(cid:895) He must be fully human for the divine act of salvation to reach the point of human need-(cid:862)what is (cid:374)ot assu(cid:373)ed is (cid:374)ot healed (cid:894)gregory of nazia(cid:374)zus(cid:895) Accepted without reserve by all major western christian thinkers until the modern period. Both the nicaneo-constantinopolitan creed of 381 (expansion of creed of nicea 325) and the chaledonian definition of 451 are still affirmed by all main-stream western denominations. Why john: the patristic conception of scripture, the patristic view of john. The early fathers and thinkers of the church saw the book of john as a higher gospel than the. John was seen to tell the story of christ in a more elegant fashion.