Religious figures and sacred texts Flashcards
(10 cards)
Give quotations confirming Luke’s birth narrative as using the kenotic model.
“Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to call him John.” (Luke 1:13)- Jesus is not the only child born of the Holy Spirit/ Jospeh is not the only fathert to be visited by angels.
“Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age.” (appearance to Mary).
“She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.” (Luke 1:7).
“And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby.” (Luke 2:8).
Give evidence of Matthew’s birth narrative supporting the substantial model.
No mention of Elizabeth’s story (masculine perspective).
“they will call him ‘Immanuel’ (which means ‘God with us’).” (Matthew 1:23)
“We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.” (Matthew 2:2)
“So was fulfilled, what was said through the prophets, that he would be a Nazarene.” (Matthew 2:23)
Give a quote from St Paul on the kenotic model.
“he made himself nothing” (Philippians 2)
“he humbled himself… by becoming obedient to death” (Philippians 2)
Give quotes from Hebrews supporting the kenotic model.
“He was heard because of his piety.” (Hebrews 5)
“he learned obedience from the things which he suffered.” (Hebrews 5)
Give quotes from St. Athanasius supporting the substantial model.
“He Himself, as the Word, being immortal and the Father’s Son, was such as could not die.” (De Incarnatione)
“The king of all” (De Incarnatione)
“showed Him to be not only man, but also God the Word.” (De Incarnatione)
“by the extraordinary acts which He did through the body He proved Himself to be the Son of God.” (De Incarnatione)
“the Life Himself” (De Incarnatione)
Give a quote from Bornkamm on the respect afforded in Matthew and Luke.
‘Lord’ is not a human title of respect (as is ‘Teacher’), but a ‘divine predicate of majesty’.
Give a criticism of Redaction Criticism from Mark Goodacre.
When identifying differences, we ignore similarities; we are “obsessed” with differences so we ignore where Matthew affirms Mark on religious matters.
Give a term coined by Hermann Gunkel to describe the communities the gospels were written in.
“Sitz im Leben” (“life setting”)
Give differences between the four resurrection stories.
Number of women who discover the tomb (Matthew- “Mary Magdalen and the other Mary”, Mark- “Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome”, Luke- “Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James”, John- “Mary Magdalene”). Crucially, Jesus appears to women in each and the disciples never believe them.
Matthew- “they came and took hold of his feet and worshipped him,” Luke- “Touch me not: for I am not yet ascended unto the Father”- contrasting perspectives on Jesus’ resurrected form. (Dualism? Heavenly or physical body?)
“for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye behold me having.” (Luke 24:39)- physical body.
“they worshipped him; but some doubted.” (Matthew 28:17)- writes for Jewish audience, aim of conversion.
Give quotations from the gospels on the nature of the resurrected body.
“Thinking he was the gardener” (John 20:15)- resurrected body takes a different form to the original.
