Browsing the archives for the Jesus category

7 Dec 08

Apocalypticism and Destruction

Is destruction the defining characteristic of apocalyptic thought? If you look at the chart that I have included in a previous post, you see that “judgment/destruction of the wicked” is the only category that appears in every Apocalypse that is listed in the chart. This makes sense as a defining characteristic. Apocalyptic writing is a [...]

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3 Dec 08

Jesus' Family Values

I’m borrowing the title of Deirdre Good’s book even though I haven’t read it. It’s a catchy way of getting at what I’ve been considering quite a bit lately. As we read Jesus’ statements in the Gospels, he often feels somewhat hostile to blood families. Christians caught up in “family values” culture wars in North [...]

2 Comments Posted in Gospels, Jesus, family, family values, siblings, social history by Patrick George McCullough
2 Dec 08

Film: "Birth of a New Religion"

Bartchy had his survey course, “History of Early Christians,” watch a section of a documentary film on Christianity to review. I thought I would share my own thoughts here. Part One of the film “Two Thousand Years: The History of Christianity” (1999), a section entitled “The Birth of a New Religion: 1st and 2nd Centuries,” [...]

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24 Sep 08

Jesus in the Qur'an (Part 2)

( . . . continued from part one)
We can also recognize that Muhammad (peace be upon him) had contact with perhaps not-so-orthodox Christianity. When the Qur’an denies the Trinity, is it the same thing as the “official” Christian doctrine of the Trinity? The Qur’an is set within its historical and cultural context. Not only is [...]

7 Comments Posted in Christology, Gospel of John, Islam, Jesus, Koran, Muhammad, Qur'an, Trinity, interfaith, new testament by Patrick George McCullough
24 Sep 08

Jesus in the Qur'an (Part 1)

My final course for Fuller was an introduction to Islam. For my final paper, I had to look into the portrait of Jesus in the Qur’an and look for points of common ground with the NT Gospels. Instead of focusing on negative contrasts, we were to “evaluate the quranic Jesus and suggest how it can [...]

1 Comment Posted in Christology, Islam, Jesus, Koran, Muhammad, Qur'an, Trinity, interfaith, new testament by Patrick George McCullough
31 Jul 08

Johannes Weiss in context

In a course I am currently taking on Post-Reformation and Modern Theology, the professor (Richard Muller) mentioned the relationship between Johannes Weiss and his father-in-law, Albrecht Ritschl. I first discovered this interesting relationship in my course on the history of NT scholarship. It’s a fascinating historical example.
Ritschl, the theological liberal (a descriptor, not a polemic), [...]

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23 Mar 08

If you thought Rev. Wright was bad…

Signe Wilkinson / Philadelphia Daily News
HT: LA Times

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19 Mar 07

Working on a Writing Sample: Remembering Jesus

In the next six months or so, I will have to create a paper to submit as a sample to doctoral programs. At this point, I am in the planning stages. None of my classes have provided the opportunity for me to create a paper that I feel expresses what most interests me. The topic [...]

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