The Gospels and Christian Life in History and Practice - Valantasis, Richard; Bleyle, Douglas K.; Haugh, Dennis C.
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The four canonical gospels arose in unique circumstances in different parts of the Roman Empire. This book studies the gospels as formative documents that reveal how these four communities refracted the life of Jesus to express their unique community life in their historical contexts. Reading Mark, Matthew, Luke and Acts, and John as distinct communities with particular systems of formation, this book explores the differences between the gospels, while providing four windows on the development of primitive Christianity.

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The four canonical gospels arose in unique circumstances in different parts of the Roman Empire. This book studies the gospels as formative documents that reveal how these four communities refracted the life of Jesus to express their unique community life in their historical contexts. Reading Mark, Matthew, Luke and Acts, and John as distinct communities with particular systems of formation, this book explores the differences between the gospels, while providing four windows on the development of primitive Christianity.
Autorenporträt
Richard Valantasis is Professor of Asceticism and Christian Practice and the Director of the Anglican Studies Program at Candler School of Theology / Emory University. Among his numerous publications are The Gospel of Thomas, The New Q: Translation and Commentary, Third-Century Spiritual Guides, Centuries of Holiness, and The Beliefnet Guide to Gnosticism. He is also the editor of Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice and co-editor of Asceticism. An artist as well as a teacher and scholar, Deborah J. Haynes is Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Colorado at Boulder. James D. Smith III is Associate Professor of Church History at Bethel Seminary San Diego and Lecturer in Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Diego. He also serves on the pastoral staff of College Avenue Baptist Church. After many years on staff at several scholarly and educational publishers, Janet F. Carlson is currently an independent editor and writer. She has been a friend and admirer of Margaret R. Miles for twenty-five years.
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This is a creative and engaging book, highly recommended for students for whom the Greco-Roman context of the gospels will come alive with exquisite detail. Full of information, but written in an accessible style with story-telling flair, the book will inspire readers to imagine the wider world that gave rise to the gospels as well as the worlds they are capable of evoking. -- Pamela Eisenbaum, Iliff School of Theology When you ask a new question, the world you thought you knew suddenly becomes a place of vast new discovery. Valantasis, Bleyle, and Haugh have broken open the gospels with a simple new question: How shall we live? They have seen that the gospels are not the embodiment of a set of beliefs, but a strategy of social formation and enculturation into the Empire of God. Their work is creative, intelligent, and above all revelatory. We should never be bored of the gospels again. -- Stephen J. Patterson, Eden Theological Seminary Recommended. CHOICE, January 2010 Writing in clear prose and incorporating examples from popular culture as a way to illustrate method and meaning, the authors of this intriguing volume strive to present the cutting edge of New Testament scholarship in accessible form. They succeed. The volume provocatively shifts the question of the gospels from the recovery of the historical Jesus to the individual gospel authors' project of community formation. It transforms the study of the gospels from a quest for the historical past into a dynamic understanding of Christian community formation that can still bear fruit today. -- James Goehring, University of Mary Washington…mehr