At last season's Imitation of Christ event, major editors arrived early; this season many did not even show up.
In the Pauline writings, as noted above, gospel, kerygma, and creed come close together from oral to written formulas that were transmitted about the Christ event: Jesus' death and Resurrection.
In its essence it accepted God and contended that man knows Him chiefly through Christ, or what Mr. Niebuhr called "the Christ event". The doctrine, in its evolved form, suggested that man's condition was inherently sinful, and that his original, and largely ineradicable, sin is his pride, or egotism.
Related to this is the modern-day task of coordinating its doctrine of creation or its doctrine of the revelation of the transcendent (e.g., the Christ event in Christianity) with the worldview of modern natural science and its thesis of the immanency of being i.e., of being that is self-contained.
As for the Christ event, whatever happened there, the message seems clear to me: never lose hope.
The nucleus of everything that Christian theology says about 'God' is to be found in this Christ event.
I'm just trying to understand the Christ event -- the crucifixion and resurrection in the context of Jesus' life and teachings as a Jew who never claimed to be anything but "the son of man," a term that is not understandable except in the context of the time when that term (Aramaic bein enosh) simply meant "a human being" and was in common usage.
In her PhD thesis containing a chapter on de Silva's work, Damayanthi Niles claims that there is a problem with de Silva's argument in relation to salvation, in that it "reconciles the exclusive Christ-event and the inclusive vision of God's salvific plan purely on Christian terms," and that it does not take the "religious visions and commitments of other faiths seriously".
"Nick and the Candlestick" redoes the birth of little Nicholas Hughes as the birth of Christ, an event that resets time.
By making the confession of Jesus as the crucified and risen Lord (the earliest kerygma and "gospel" as found in Paul and Acts) the form of an extensive Passion account prefaced by a limited amount of narrative and teaching, Mark set the stage for a faith that anchored faith in Jesus Christ in the events of the earthly life of Jesus.
