The Four Gospels: And Other Texts, A Critical Handbook of the New Testament - Couverture souple

Butler, Dick

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0955486106 ISBN 13 : 9780955486104

Editeur : Barbican Press, 2007

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Revue de presse

I enjoyed the book and am happy to endorse it: Dick Butler has distilled the essence of the last 200 years of critical Biblical scholarship and has made it available to the average Christian who sits in the pews of our churches. That is a remarkable achievement and if widely used will dispel the 'bibliolatry' that infects American Christianity. Bishop Jack Spong --Letter to the Author

Despite close on 200 years of New Testament scholarship we still do not know who wrote the Gospels, why or how. What Edwyn Hoskyns described in 1931 as the Riddle of the New Testament remains so today. Dick Butler, a retired Anglican priest, has written a fascinating book following up the argument of Michael Goulder that the Gospels were written as part of early lectionaries to accompany readings from the Old Testament and rejecting the so-called Four Document Hypothesis which has for so long been an orthodoxy of New Testament scholarship. He has a chapter on each Gospel and further chapters on such topics as the passion narratives, parables and miracles. The book also contains suggestive essays, for example on the Pauline Epistles and aspects of the Old Testament. There is much in this book to stimulate the thought and the preaching of any Reader. Peter Watkins --The Reader (Spring 2008)

Clare has now finished reading your book to me, all but the Tables. There have been many pauses when we have commented how clear, concise, and readable your text was. It is indeed an excellent piece of work. We also appreciated the quality of the presentation, with large clear type and generous margins. Clare feels particularly how well you have presented your material to the ordinary reader, giving just the right amount of information and setting the scene so clearly, and she really enjoyed it. --Letter from Clare and Michael Goulder (Michael was blind at the time and his wife Clare read it to him)

Présentation de l'éditeur

For more than one hundred years there has been a consensus among liberal New Testament scholars that the Synoptic Gospels (Mark, Matthew and Luke) rest upon lost, written sources. On this view the evangelists were not authors in their own right, but merely the editors of these texts, stringing stories together, like beads on a string. But now there is a growing awareness that all of this is mistaken. There were no such written sources. The evangelists were not editors at all, but authors in their own right, Christian scribes, Matthew would have said, writing Christian Scripture for the use of the early church. Very briefly, Mark's remains the original Gospel. Matthew's Gospel is a re-write and expansion of Mark's, while Luke's Gospel conflates the other two, with new material of his own again. And as we study this process it becomes apparent that each evangelist has his own individual overview of the story he tells, or retells. Mark thought of Jesus as the Son of God incognito, whom God had destined to die. Matthew thought of him as a teacher of Christian wisdom, greater even than Solomon. While, for Luke, Jesus was the model Christian, who calls us to discipleship. But, as before, John's Gospel still stands apart from the other three. It was written for the non-Jewish, Pauline churches and draws its primary inspiration from the Pauline Epistles. These new insights need not remain the preserve of scholars and can be simply explained. So this Handbook expounds and summarizes each Gospel in turn and includes chapters on the Birth and Passion Narratives, the Parables and Miracle Stories, the Lord's Prayer, the Sermon on the Mount, and the story of the Empty Tomb.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Barbican Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0955486106
• ISBN 13: 9780955486104
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 205
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible