RLG323H1 Lecture Notes - Early Christianity, Documentary Hypothesis, Protestantism
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Priority protestant preoccupation (early church corrupted by catholic teachings) need to get back to actual jesus, knowledge and reflection. No one questions goal of historical jesus scholarship. Determine authenticity of jesus" sayings and teachings, critique of tradition, gain a better understanding of progression of christianity (mack doesn"t agree) Myth making- understand ourselves by working with intellectual tools we have, only use certain parts of sources, explains own identity to yourself (engage with these in position paper) American hj scholarship ignore bultmann (he says bible expression of early church) New confidence in use of bible of source creation of hj seminar. Hard to account for huge diversity of jesus. Mack"s 4 critiques of the hj quest. 1) no agreement about which texts to use. 2) no single profile of jesus can account for christian diversity. 3) no strong link between teachings and crucifixion. New focus to read these texts only in the interest of the quest to know the historical.
