THE 1000C Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Demiurge, Ameinu

• School: St. John's University
• Department: Theology and Religious Studies
• Course: THE 1000C
• Professor: Maione

Document Summary

Gnosticism: a prominent heretical movement of the 2nd-century christian church, partly of pre-christian origin. Canonical: according to or ordered by canon law included in the list of sacred books officially accepted as genuine: the canonical gospels of the new testament. Infancy gospels: jesus is a child with miraculous powers that he doesn"t understand or control. Is more specific of his childhood, than matthew & luke give (which give only mostly his public life) Infancy gospels gives a different perspective that fills in the gaps in the canonical gospels (matthew & luke & mark & john: authorship: 150 c. e, portrays jesus as violent versus benevolent, he breaks law. He is not without sin (as a child: the infancy gospel of thomas: extracanonical character, redefines miracles , presents jesus as divine, but irresponsible. A child at heart: likened to the divine priestly creator, collects water into pools. In mark, jesus withers tree: b/c it doesn"t give him fruit.