Jesus The Epic Hero
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Jesus The Epic Hero
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Author : Karl Olav Sandnes
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2022-08-29
Jesus The Epic Hero written by Karl Olav Sandnes and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-29 with Religion categories.
The ancient cento-genre was prone to be used on all kinds of subjects. New texts were created out of the classical epics. Empress Eudocia followed this practice and composed the story of Jesus in lines lifted almost verbatim from Homer’s epics. Jesus and his relevance to her audience is thus presented within the confines of style and vocabulary offered by the Iliad and Odyssey. The lines picked to convey her theology are often clustered around key Homeric motifs or type scenes, such as warfare, homecoming, feast, reconciliation, hospitality. Jesus waging war against all evil and Hades in particular runs throughout this Homeric and simultaneously biblical epic. The story starts in the Old Testament which is conceived as a divine counsel on Mt. Olympus where a plan to save sinful humanity is presented. The narrative then follows the biographic lines of the canonical gospels, with John’s Gospel holding pride of place in the way she renders and interprets the Jesus-story. The story told suspends both the geography and time of Jesus. Eudocia preaches the story she tells. She emerges in this poem as one of the most, if not the most prolific female theologian and preacher in the first Christian centuries.
Mythologizing Jesus
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Author : Dennis R. MacDonald
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2015-05-07
Mythologizing Jesus written by Dennis R. MacDonald and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-07 with Religion categories.
Our culture is well-populated with superheroes: Superman, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, and more. Superheroes are not a modern invention; in fact, they are prehistoric. The gods and goddesses of the Greeks, for example, walked on water, flew, visited the land of the dead, and lived forever. Ancient Christians told similar stories about Jesus, their primary superhero—he possessed incredible powers of healing, walked on water, rose from the dead, and more. Dennis R. MacDonald shows how the stories told in the Gospels parallel many in Greek and Roman epics with the aim of compelling their readers into life-changing decisions to follow Jesus. MacDonald doesn’t call into question the existence of Jesus but rather asks readers to examine the biblical stories about him through a new, mythological lens.
Epic
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Author : Charlie Garrison
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-04-09
Epic written by Charlie Garrison and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-09 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
"Epic" is a collection of some of the most epic stories in the Bible, but each story points to Jesus, the one true hero. Whether the story is about David and Goliath, or Jonah and the big fish, you can be confident Jesus is on display for little readers. After all, that was always God's plan.
Jesus My Hero
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Author : Shantel Murphy
language : en
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
Release Date : 2019-09-16
Jesus My Hero written by Shantel Murphy and has been published by Covenant Books, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-16 with Fiction categories.
Everyone has a hero. Discover what makes Jesus the greatest hero-from his ultimate sacrifice to his endless miracles. Through poems and Bible verses, you will uncover the greatness of his teachings and unconditional love.
Jesus Unleashed
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Author : Ron Clark
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2014-01-03
Jesus Unleashed written by Ron Clark and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-03 with Religion categories.
Luke's narrative of Jesus was presented to Christians who had already heard and read stories of Jesus and the birth of this new movement, Christianity. Luke seemed to rewrite the story of Jesus similar to ancient epics of the history of a nation, a movement, and the tale of a hero. Jesus and the church emerged in occupied Judea, a nation that was not only oppressed but was in exile. Occupied Judea, however, struggled for power and honor and in turn, for marginalized people who needed God. Jesus, the epic hero, journeyed to earth and Jerusalem to free those on the margins of society. This epic story lives on today in a church that also has heard the story of Jesus, but has forgotten that the friend of sinners calls Christians to also reach those who are marginalized by our occupied culture. Luke invites Christians to emerge as a movement that seeks and saves those ostracized by our communities.
Spenser Milton And The Redemption Of The Epic Hero
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Author : Christopher Bond
language : en
Publisher: University of Delaware
Release Date : 2011-04-29
Spenser Milton And The Redemption Of The Epic Hero written by Christopher Bond and has been published by University of Delaware this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book studies the interplay of theology and poetics in the three great epics of early modern England, the Faerie Queene, Paradise Lost, and Paradise Regained. Bond examines how Spenser and Milton adapted the pattern of dual heroism developed in classical and Medieval works. Challenging the opposition between 'Calvinist,' 'allegorical' Spenser and 'Arminian,' 'dramatic' Milton, this book offers a new understanding of their doctrinal and literary affinities within the European epic tradition.
Spenser Milton And The Redemption Of The Epic Hero
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Author : Christopher Bond
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2011-04-29
Spenser Milton And The Redemption Of The Epic Hero written by Christopher Bond and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book studies the interplay of theology and poetics in the three great epics of early-modern England: the Faerie Queene, Paradise Lost, and Paradise Regained. Bond examines the relationship between the poems’ primary heroes, Arthur and the Son, who are godlike, virtuous, and powerful, and the secondary heroes, Redcrosse and Adam, who are human, fallible, and weak. He looks back at the development of this pattern of dual heroism in classical, Medieval, and Italian Renaissance literature, investigates the ways in which Spenser and Milton adapted the model, and demonstrates how the Jesus of Paradise Regained can be seen as the culmination of this tradition. Challenging the opposition between “Calvinist,” “allegorical” Spenser and “Arminian,” “dramatic” Milton, this book offers a new account of their doctrinal and literary affinities within the European epic tradition. Arguing that Spenser influenced Milton in fundamental ways, Bond establishes a firmer structural and thematic link between the two authors, and shows how they transformed a strongly antifeminist genre by the addition of a crucial, although at times ambivalent, heroine. He also proposes solutions to some of the most difficult and controversial theological cruxes posed by these poems, in particular Spenser’s attitude to free will and Milton’s to the Trinity. By providing a deeper understanding of the religious agendas of these epics, this book encourages a rapprochement between scholarly approaches that are too narrowly concerned with either theology or poetics.
Story Of Jesus
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Author : Hannah West lake
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Story Of Jesus written by Hannah West lake and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with categories.
The Contemporary Jesus
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Author : Thomas J. J. Altizer
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1997-01-01
The Contemporary Jesus written by Thomas J. J. Altizer and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-01-01 with Religion categories.
Integrates a contemporary understanding of Jesus with the most powerful, imaginative visions of Jesus in philosophy, literature, and religion. The Contemporary Jesus is the first critical study integrating contemporary understanding of Jesus with the most powerful, imaginative visions of Jesus in our history. The book imaginatively engages many views of Jesus: an apocalyptic Jesus, gnostic Jesus, Buddhist Jesus, Pauline Jesus, Crossan's Jesus, and the Catholic, Protestant, and nihilistic views found in writers such as Dante, Joyce, Milton, Blake, Dostoyevsky, and Nietzsche. Altizer also examines the Jesus who emerges from the Jesus Seminar. Seldom, if ever, has there been such an intense public and critical engagement with Jesus, as our New Testament scholarship is wholly isolated from both our imaginative and our conceptual traditions, and likewise isolated from all genuine theological or even religious understanding. The Contemporary Jesus bridges that chasm, this alone making the book unique, but the book is also an embodiment of a contemporary radical theology which is Christian and universal at once. It intends a critical recovery of the original Jesus that can be integrated with our deeper history, a history which is finally a universal history, but a universal history that is wholly opaque to our given and established theological understanding.
We Have Been Believers
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Author : James H. Evans
language : en
Publisher: Fortress Press
Release Date : 1992
We Have Been Believers written by James H. Evans and has been published by Fortress Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Religion categories.
In this, the first full-scale black systematic theology in twenty years, James Evans emerges as a major and distinctive voice in American theology.Seeking to overcome the chasm between church practice and theological reflection, Evans situates theology squarely in the nexus of faith with freedom. There, with a sure touch, he uplifts revelatory aspects of black religious experience that reanimate classical areas of theology, and he creates a theology with a heart, a soul and a voice that speaks directly to our condition.