Nazareth

person/divine image of Jesus, both the person of Jesus of Nazareth and the divine Jesus the Christ must be developed and understood. It is the fixation on one or the other, or the failure to develop one or the other that often leads to erroneous assumptions and errors in developing Christology. It is been the case that far too often Christianity has dwelt exclusively with the divinity of Jesus Christ and all but ignoring the personhood of Jesus of Nazareth, from which all of the gospels of the…

The Bible has four gospels but, only two of them contain the nativity story. The two gospels that have the nativity story are the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Luke. Both are similar on a literary level which can be explained by the synoptic problem. The Gospel of Mark and the source “Q” were the basis of these two gospels. Matthew and Luke shared sources but, they had their individual sources too. The genealogy, the nativity, and the childhood of Jesus played significant roles within the…

Question 1: Read John 1:1-18, in particular 1:17, “The Law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.” What is the background of teaching found with Moses that is a starting point but also a point of departure for Jesus? See especially Exodus 3 for the revelation of God, his holiness, and name. See also Exodus 19 and the setting of the revelation of the Law from Mt. Sinai. How does the teaching of Jesus come to be noted for grace and truth in contrast to the Law…

Was Jesus Really The Messiah Jesus has been called an imposter [simply a good man], and others believe Him to be the Messiah; so, is Jesus the son of Joseph or the Divine Son of God. The fact that Jesus lived needs no proof, but if He was the son of Joseph, then He was simply a man; nonetheless, if only a man, why has there not been through all the years another man His equal? Fact is, if He is not Deity, He is unexplainable. If He was just a man, the claims He made were not true and that…

It is not guaranteed that passion will be found in one’s profession. Like many who pursue a career in Speech-Language Pathology, the opportunity to work with children was what drew me to the profession. For as long as I can remember, that is where my passion was. I followed that passion throughout high school and after, by working at a summer camp for children. As a patient and compassionate person, I loved being with the children as a camp counselor, and when it came time to choose a college…

this, mothers in every generation have called upon St. Anne to help them. Anne means Grace; the name is of Hebrew Origin. In the Gospel of James, you will find the story of Saint Anne. Saint Anne was born in Bethlehem. She married Joachim from Nazareth in Galilee. Joachim was a shepherd. He was given the task of supplying the temple of Jerusalem with the sheep for sacrifices. Anne and Joachim still had no children after twenty-five years of marriage. Joachim went into the desert and pleaded…

The Lost Letters of Pergamum, a book by Bruce W, Longenecker is a fictional book that gives multiple views of the culture of the first century Church. This book is described as fictional, but it is written in a narrative form. The letters in this novel are not made up letters but they were found and translated into English after being hidden in the city of Pergamum. They also belonged to Antipas, a Roman businessman at the time. These letters were written by Luke, Antipas and other essential…

did. The whole point of Jesus coming down to earth was to save us from our sins and lead us to eternal life. That is how I tried to reconcile these differences because to me what mattered was the fat that he was born in Bethlehem and ended up in Nazareth somehow. Everything that happen before or in between is just extra but somehow still important I…

In my Master of Divinity program I wrote a paper entitled, “What is the place of work in the Christian Life?” That paper was a reflection on Lee Hardy’s book, The Fabric of This World: Inquiries into Calling, Career Choice and the Design of Human Work. While Hardy’s work began with an examination of Greek thought in regards to work and leisure, as represented by the works Plato and Aristotle, a contemporary piece might begin with Working, by Studs Terkel, moving from work into theology, as…

Timeline Events and Parallels 1.) Event number one is my birth, I was born in the U.A.E., on June 25 2001. The parallel in Jesus’s life is his birth in Bethlehem, which we celebrate on Christmas, which will be Dec. 25 2016 this liturgical year. As a symbol I drew a manger which is where Jesus was born. 2.) Event two is my family’s move to Toronto, Ontario in Dec 2004, when I was 3 years old. The parallel in Jesus’s life is when Joseph and Mary flee to Egypt with baby Jesus, due to King Herod…