The Five Gospels: What Did Jesus Really Say? The Search for the AUTHENTIC Words of Jesus
by Robert W. Funk
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Author: Robert W. FunkEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1997-01-29
ISBN: 006063040X
Number of pages: 576
Publisher: HarperOne
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Book Review: The soul catches fire: the Bible as history of philosophy
Summary: 5 Stars
Plato said that philosophy was a conversation in which the soul catches fire. Bound in religious traditions that take the Bible literally and everything printed in red as the absolute words of Jesus, this conversation has not been allowed outside of some seminaries where liberal thinking is encouraged. This book brings to the public,in accessible form, the rudiments of the conversation that is Bible scholarship. Part of catching fire is being consumed in new thought. This book provides a portal to the process that New Testament scholars have used to deconstruct the language attributed to Jesus. The reader is given a way of thinking about history and its archival artifacts, namely the literature history inspires. Who was Jesus and what did he really say? That is a literary question as much as it is a theological one, and the reader is immersed in the discussion. Only if you are a religious fundamentalist who will have your cage irreconcilably rattled by the thought that the New Testament is literature, not absolute fact, will you not be eager to enter into the discussion with the scholars. Most of the text is the discourse the scholars conducted in deciding the major questions: "Did Jesus really say that?...did he say something like that?...Did someone else say this and attribute it to him?...and if so why?" Dissenting views are given. It is much like reading synopisi of the United State Supremem Court Hearings. And isn't that appropos? It is the hermenutical stance that ancient Talmud scholars took in trying to interpret the Torah. No absolute answers are given---that's why it's a conversation, and each reader will come away with an altered view of Jesus and his mission in the world, but no one will be able to dogmatically claim to KNOW having read this book. Fire consumes and purifies. This is a book of consuming inquiry and purifying possibilities, because it makes us rethink what we have been so bold for centuries to believe we knew.
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