Author: John Michael Perry Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 9781556129247 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 196
Book Description
In Exploring the Messianic Secret in Mark's Gospel, John Perry shows the reader how to distinguish between the actual history of Jesus and Mark's Messianic Secret theology, explaining why the substance of Mark's theology is still valid and can still nourish our contemporary faith
Author: Heikki Räisänen Publisher: Burns & Oates ISBN: Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 318
Book Description
This is a new and original study of Mark which challenges several important currently held views. The opening chapter examines the whole question of the methodology in the study of Mark's gospel, especially recent literary approaches. Raisanen incisively criticises those who seek to understand Mark's story world without reference to Mark's 'real life' concerns. Raisanen goes on to consider the collection of motifs in Mark generally known as the 'messianic secret'. He argues that there is no common explanation covering them all, but that they should all be interpreted seperately; and that the messianic secret proper may involve only a few motifs and is not necessarily the key to the whole of Mark's theology. Finally Raisanen considers why Mark developed the secrecy motif. This book will be of special interest to New Testament scholars, scientists of religion, theology students and clergy.
Author: William Wrede Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand ISBN: 0227176839 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 318
Book Description
William Wrede was among the first to recognise the creative contribution of the Gospel writers. His work thus laid the foundation for the work of the Form Critics, Redaction Critics and Literary Critics whose scholarship dominated New Testament studies during the twentieth century. This highly influential work was throughout this period the departure point for all studies in the Gospel of Mark and in the literary methods of the evangelists. It remains highly relevant for its ground-breaking approach to the classically complicated question of whether Jesus saw himself and represented himself as the Messiah.
Author: William Wrede Publisher: James Clarke & Company ISBN: 0227906721 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 208
Book Description
The Messianic Secret, which one century on is still the point of departure for all studies of the Gospel of Mark and of an understanding of the literary methods of the Gospel writers, is now available in English in this translation by J.C.G. Greig. Wrede's primary concern in his discussion of Mark is the doctrine of the messianic secret, the notion of a Jesus who, assuming messiahship at baptism, keeps it secret for much of his ministry until, after the confessions of Peter, he introduces the disciples to the idea of a suffering and dying Messiah. The idea of such a secret can be shown, from a study of the other Gospels, to have developed variously, and above all to go back to a period prior to Mark's work as the earliest evangelist. Wrede finds the theological source of the idea of a secret about the messiahship in a contrast between what the Church came to think of Jesus and how his life had been understood during his ministry. He suggests that because the Church came to think of Jesus as Messiah after the Resurrection, they came to explain the lack of explicit declaration of his messiahship by Jesus during his ministry by suggesting that (nevertheless) Jesus had after all secretly revealed himself as the Messiah. The doctrine of the messianic secret is, says Wrede, the after-effect of the idea of the Resurrection as the beginning of Jesus' messianic office". Furthermore, if this doctrine could have arisen only at a time when nothing was known of any open claim on Jesus' part to be Messiah, this seems to be positive evidence that Jesus actually did not represent himself as Messiah. Wrede was among the first to recognise the creative contribution of the writers of the Gospels, and to emphasise the necessity of a historical approach to the Church's traditions if we are to avoid a naive misunderstanding of the perspective from which the Gospels are written. His work is thus the foundation stone not only in the study of Mark, about whom he still has much to teach us, but also in the vexed area of the contribution of the evangelists to the Gospel. In this field Wrede's work is still essential reading, unsurpassed by the advances of the Form Critics, the Redaction Critics, whose work draws directly on his, and even of the more advanced literary critics of the present day.
Author: David F. Watson Publisher: ISBN: 9780800697099 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Readers have long puzzled over peculiar aspects of the Gospel according to Mark, especially Jesus' attempts to conceal his deeds and his identity. William Wrede famously proposed that Mark had invented the "messianic secret" to explain why the announcement of the arrival of the Son of God had not taken the world by storm; but that proposal has proven more controversial than convincing. Now David F. Watson revisits the "messianic secret," relying not on the Christological concerns of nineteenth- and twentieth-century the theologians but on recent social-scientific insights into the role of honor and shame in ancient Mediterranean culture. The result is a dramatically new understanding of the "messianic secret" and of the broader purpose of the Gospel according to Mark. "Taking up and refining insights from recent social-scientific exegetical-research on secrecy in the Ancient Mediterranean world, Watson convineingly demonstrates that Wrede's `messianic secret' hypothesis is entirely culturally implausible, Concealment passages in Mark primarity reflect the day-to-day concerns about honor and shame among early believers who would have understood the Gospel to be addressing these issues." John J. Pitch Georgetown University "In this very useful monograph, David Watson's scholarly soundings into the roles of secrecy in the ancient Mediterranean further illustrate the value of anthropological history. Perhaps now William Wrede's understanding of the `messianic secret' in Mark may finally he laid to rest." Bruce J. Malina Creighton University "Honor among Christians evinces perhaps the most thorough deployment of cultural anthropelogy for understanding Mark's Gospel that I know, and one of the most sophisticated, Watson convincingly argues that William Wrede's durable prism of `the Messianic secret' has occluded our exegetical vision, which may be corrected by adopting lenses more appropriate to Mark's own social world. The text, not a method, remains focal in Watson's analysis, which opens rather than shuts down a broad range of productive conversation with other interpretive approaches. This is a work of genuine importance chiefly because it illumines how subversive the Second Gospel was in its own place and time---and remains so in our own." C. Clifton Black Otto A. Piper Professor of Biblical Theology Princeton Theological Seminary
Author: John Killinger Publisher: Mercer University Press ISBN: 0881462233 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 160
Book Description
Well-known preacher and literary scholar John Killinger has combined his talents to provide the most revolutionary study of the Gospel of Mark ever written. On the basis of textual patterns he discovered in a Gospel long believed to be "naive" and "unstudied," Killinger reveals evidence that the two calming-of-the-sea stories traditionally regarded as miracles are actually post-resurrection stories. This explanation not only accounts for the absence of such stories at the end of the Gospel, where the other Gospels place them, but suggests that Mark might actually be a gnostic document, as the gnostics believed in the resurrection of Jesus but did not emphasize his physical resurrection. A gnostic origin for Mark also explains other long-standing enigmas in Mark, including its high opinion of women (the gnostics had women priests); the annoying stupidity of the disciples; the amazing recognition of Jesus' real identity by a blind man; and the so-called Messianic Secret (gnostics wanted to conceal their rites and teachings from outsiders). In this groundbreaking interpretation of the Gospel of Mark, Killinger has given us a reason to reassess the purpose of the Gospel of Mark.
Author: Publisher: Canongate Books ISBN: 0857860976 Category : Bibles Languages : en Pages : 73
Book Description
The earliest of the four Gospels, the book portrays Jesus as an enigmatic figure, struggling with enemies, his inner and external demons, and with his devoted but disconcerted disciples. Unlike other gospels, his parables are obscure, to be explained secretly to his followers. With an introduction by Nick Cave
Author: David Forrest Mitchell Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1725256592 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 107
Book Description
Many scholars disagree about what was meant by Jesus's intriguing self-designation ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου (the Son of Man). This book attempts to find some clarity by working through every example of the phrase in the Gospel of Mark to determine how the phrase functions and what it means in that narrative. While every use of the phrase is self-referential and describes Jesus and his ministry, the analysis yields three main distinctions in use of the phrase as well as three significant unifying features. The book then moves to explore whether, despite of the skepticism of some scholars, there is some background for the phrase in the book of Ezekiel's use of בֶּן־אָדָם (son of man) in relation to basic form and function and to thematic import.
Author: John Michael Perry
Author: Heikki Räisänen
Author: William Wrede
Author: William Wrede
Author: David F. Watson
Author: John Killinger
Author: 
Author: Ronald J. Kernaghan
Author: Heikki Räisänen
Author: David Forrest Mitchell