RS110 Lecture 6: Christianity - Module 5 Notes

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RS110
• Professor: Peter Frick

Document Summary

Module 5 origin of christianity: jesus and paul. 1: christianity is the way of the cross, christianity goes back to christ, christ jesus of nazareth. Isaiah, lamentations, ezekiel, daniel: hosea, joel, amos, obadiah, jonah, micah, nahum, habakkuk, zephaniah, haggai, Zechariah, malachi: historical writings, joshua, judges, ruth, 1 and 2 samuel, 1 kings, 2 kings, 1 chronicle, 2 chronicle, ezra, Jesus of nazareth: founder of christian faith (religion) Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 6: preached in synagogue that jesus was the messiah, paul spoke hellenistic greek, allowed christianity to spread quickly, congruence between roman history and biblical history. Paul and judaism: paul"s own words from galatians 1:13, 13: you have heard, no doubt, of my earlier life in judaism. Pauline theology: theology in christianity is more important that theology in judaism. In judaism, torah is aimed at the practice of judaism.