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CCS SysTheo. Issues in Modern Theology: The Historical Jesus, The New Perspectives on Paul, The Emergent Church. The Historical Jesus. A Modern “Scholarship” movement to make distinct the Jesus of History and the Jesus of Faith

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  1. CCS SysTheo Issues in Modern Theology: The Historical Jesus, The New Perspectives on Paul, The Emergent Church

  2. The Historical Jesus • A Modern “Scholarship” movement to make distinct the Jesus of History and the Jesus of Faith • Claims that the Jesus worshipped today is a fabrication of historical biases • Early “quests” – Albert Schweitzer, Thomas Jefferson • Latter “quests” – The Jesus Seminar, N.T. Wright, Ben Witherington

  3. Problems with the Historical Jesus • The Bible is being handled by modern Higher Critical Methods • The Bible is being handled like a mere book • These “quests” only appear after the Enlightenment and only abide in modern, neo-orthodox theology • The Christ of Faith has been the only Christ of Christianity since the Ascension • It is a reconstructionist movement with liberal agendas

  4. THERE IS ONLY ONE JESUS

  5. The New Perspectives on Paul (NPP) • A reconstructionist movement that posits that the Doctrines of Faith versus works that modern theology sees in the writings of Paul are the fabrication of the likes of Martin Luther; Paul never wrote against the Law, just racism • They would claim that the “old perspective” was that Paul allowed for a Covenantal Nomism – or “law of the Covenant”, but did not allow for Israel to hold out the Gentiles from the covenant blessings

  6. So . . . (they say) • Paul never had a problem with Jews living by the Law • This was the nature of Second Temple Judaism • Paul was merely telling the Jews that Messiah calls them to reach out to the Gentiles • So, Paul’s critique of the Jews in Romans and Galatians was not soteriological in nature, rather it was missiological in nature • We only think that Paul was against “adding the Law to Christ”, because Luther was mad at the Catholic Church and superimposed that critique of works-salvation onto Paul in the text

  7. Proponents of the NPP • E. P. Sanders in, Paul and Palestinian Judaism (1977) • James D. G. Dunn labeled the movement , “The New Perspectives on Paul” and became the forerunner in 1982 • N. T. Wright has written a large number of works aimed at popularizing the new perspective outside of academia

  8. Problems with the NPP • Jacob Neusner, a Jewish (non-Christian) Scholar says, • “In regard to Palestinian Judaism, Sanders’ book is so profoundly flawed as to be hopeless, and I regret to say it, useless in accomplishing its stated goals of systematic description and comparison.” • It is a movement, again that is relegated to the modern Enlightenment era, alone • It is a caricatured methodology of assumptions built one one another as fact • It is very significant, as if you go back and change the history or context of a work – you have a butterfly effect

  9. So has: Jesus (Matt. 5:20) The author of Hebrews (Heb. 10:4) James (James 2:8) NOT JUST A PAUL/LUTHER THING . . . GOD HAS ALWAYS WANTED OBEDIENCE INSTEAD OF SACRIFICE

  10. THE EMERGENT CHURCH • A Late 20th and 21st century movement that is ecclesiological in nature • It blurs almost all boundaries – described as: • Protestant, post-Protestant, Catholic, evangelicalpost-evangelical, liberal, post-liberal, conservative, post-conservative, anabaptist, adventist, reformed, charismatic, neocharismatic, and post-charismatic • Claims that the Church is still emerging, and thus cannot be closed to a certain time period or the writings of that time period

  11. Implications of the Emergent Church • Tradition cannot be a guide by virtue alone • This can include the tradition of the Bible • Since the Spirit of God is still the same Spirit, He can speak today as He did with the apostles of the Bible • The most important thing is that you have an unbiased authentic experience with Jesus • People need to be Christ Followers, not Christians

  12. An Example: Rob Bell

  13. Problems with the Emerging Church • Postmodern and Existentialist in nature, there are no true definitions to work from • The Canon of Scripture is not a dated, suggestive work (Hebrews 4:12) • Even with the so-called shedding of binding rules, there is the binding rule of shedding binding rules • For the modern Christian, The Emergent Church is welcoming, yet a wolf in sheep’s clothing, for at its heart, this view puts men back in the place of authority again

  14. JOHN 17:17 – “SANCTIFY THEM IN YOUR TRUTH, YOUR WORD IS TRUTH”

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