THEO1088 Lecture 22: MARCH15_THEO100206_WALTON
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Reading check on burke, secret scriptures ch 1 text: famous novel: the da vinci code. (movie clip online about the original old wives tale - mary magdalene = jesus"s wife according to the theory) Not necessarily true: apocrypha: see notes below, gnoticism: comes from the greek word from knowledge. Knowledge that comes from a union with god. Knowledge that comes from understanding human history: why a text might be considered authoritative: not quite answered in class, bauer thesis: States that in many places there was originally no orthodox christianity (various versions accepted in various urban community) What is now deemed heresy is what was originally orthodox - no real distinction between the two. Stories about jesus and his disciples, similar to new testament stories but were left out of the canon (burke, examples in ch3: infancy gospels. Jesus as a child - infancy gospel of thomas. Wednesday, march 15, 2017: ministry gospels, jewish christian gospels, complete apocryphal gospels.
