Queen of the Sciences

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What right do Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John have to define our understanding of Jesus? Why not let the Gospels of Thomas, Philip, or Judas fill in our historical understanding? What if we've gotten Jesus wrong for 2000 years?!?! Or so the ever-renewing Jesus-conspiracy headlines would like you to think. In this episode, Dad and I discuss a wonderfully concise book by New Testament scholar Simon Gathercole to make the case for canonical Gospel priority, why apocryphal "Gospels" exist at all, and what questions remain for faith even after this particular intellectual dust has settled.

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Notes:

1. Gathercole, The Genuine Jesus and the Counterfeit Christs

2. Dad's book Divine Complexity traces the development of early Christian theology from earliest canonical witness to conciliar Christological and Trinitarian doctrine

3. My book Seven Ways of Looking at the Transfiguration traces surprisingly subterranean connections between very different books and genres of the NT

4. Related episodes: The Quest for the Historical Jesus, The Relationship between the Old and New Testaments

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If you know Habakkuk at all (a big if!), it's almost certainly because of the way the Apostle Paul uses it to make his own argument about righteousness and faith, using one single verse of this minor prophet. But what was Habakkuk talking about in his own time? Did the apostle cut the verse out of context and distort it for his own purposes? Whose faithfulness are we talking about, anyway? In this episode Dad and I tackle these questions—gaining a new appreciation for the whole of Habakkuk. And of the Septuagint!

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Notes:

1. Mauney, "Reading Paul from out of Habakkuk, both Hebrew and Greek" in Promissio

2. Sarah has an article in this issue of Promissio, too: "A Theologian Who Reads the Bible"

3. See also Dad's essay on "Faith" in the St. Andrew's Encyclopedia of Theology

4. Related episodes: The Crucifixion, Atonement, Justification by Faith, Galatians 1, Galatians 2