Biblical literalism : a gentile heresy : a journey into a new Christianity through the doorway of Matthew's gospel /: a gentile heresy : a journey into a new Christianity through the doorway of Matthew's gospel. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: John Shelby Spong.
• Other Names: Spong, John Shelby
• Contents: PART I: How the gospels came to be written: the litrugical year of the synagogue as the organizing principle -- Stating the problem, setting the stage -- Setting Jesus into the context of history -- The oral phase: entering the tunnel of silence -- Discovering the clue that organized the synoptic gospels -- Matthew's dependency on Mark -- PART II: From after Passover to Shavuot: birth to early ministry -- Genealogy and birth -- Joseph: myth or history? -- The magi and their gifts: an original sermon? -- Herod and Pharaoh: Jesus and Moses -- The baptism of Jesus: Moses relived -- Into the wilderness: forty days, not forty years -- PART III: Shavuot and the Sermon on the Mount: Sinai revisited -- Jesus' return to the symbolic Sinai -- The Lord's Prayer: taught by Jesus or composed by the church? -- PART IV: Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur: miracles and teaching -- Jesus' journey from Shavuot to Rosh Hashanah -- Matthew's introduction of Jesus as a miracle worker -- Matthew's take on the work of the kingdom -- PART V: Yom Kippur: the challenge of atonement theology -- Introducing Yom Kippur: the Day of Atonement -- Demystifying the unforgivable sin: Matthew's story at Yom Kippur -- The curse of atonement theology -- PART VI: From Sukkoth onward: the new harvest -- The symbols of Sukkoth and the food that satisfies hunger -- The beheading of John the Baptist -- Loaves and fishes, walking on water: Moses stories expanded -- Two characters, two insights -- PART VII: Dedication-Hanukkah and Transfiguration: the light of God reinterpreted -- Dedication: the return of the light of God -- The Transfiguration: a Dedication-Hanukkah story -- PART VIII: Journey toward Passover: apocalypse and judgment -- Introducing the journey section of Matthew's gospel -- The heart of the journey -- Apocalypse now: the final judgment -- PART IX: Passover and passion: the climax -- The climactic events of the passion narrative -- Probing the passion narrative for interpretive clues -- The passion narrative as liturgy -- PART X: Matthew's Easter story: a new perspective -- Easter dawns: myth or reality? -- Matthew's call to life.
• Publisher Details: San Francisco : HarperOne
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxii, 394 pages)
• Subjects: 226.2/06; Religion -- Biblical Studies -- Jesus, the Gospels & Acts; Religion -- Christianity -- General; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780062362339
• Related ISBNs: 006236233X; 9780062362308; 0062362305; 9780062362315; 0062362313
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.; Note: Print version record.
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