Jesus, Disciple of the Kingdom. Osvaldo D. Vena
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Название: Jesus, Disciple of the Kingdom

Автор: Osvaldo D. Vena

Издательство: Ingram

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СКАЧАТЬ as a Mystic

      Other Possible Models

      Literary Approaches to Mark

      By literary approaches, I refer to those methods that concentrate mainly on the text of the gospel without any concern for the way that text came to exist. They are basically synchronic rather than diachronic, for they assume the autonomy of the text to convey meaning without the control imposed on it by the author or the social location that gave it birth. Among these methods, we find narrative criticism, rhetorical criticism, structuralism, semiotics—as well as various post-modern approaches such as reader-response and, especially, deconstruction. For the sake of this work, I limit myself to a brief examination of narrative and rhetorical criticism.

      Conclusion

      Recovering an early Christology that sees Jesus as the ideal disciple of the kingdom of God is a constructive and creative task that moves us from the comfort zone in which orthodoxy has placed us into the realm of possibility and imagination. This task makes us all Christologists, builders of new understandings of who Jesus was and therefore is for certain communities. It assumes that Christologies have always been, and therefore are, community-constructed models, that is, ways of talking about Jesus that are born out of a community’s theological identity. They all bear the marks of contextuality and contingency and, therefore, are not universal and objective but particular and subjective. They are born not in busy minds detached from the real problems of the world, but in busy hands engaged in a praxis that tries to change the world. My hope is that this book will demonstrate precisely that.