Vision and Voice: Revelatory Experience in the Formation of Christian Identity
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Vision and Voice explores the impact of revelatory events (such as visions and voices) upon early Christian self-identity. In the Gospels, revelatory events, like the transfiguration, the voice from heaven in John 12, and Jesus’ baptism, burst into the narrative almost gratuitously, without leaving a tangible, lasting impression on those who witness them. Yet from these revelatory experiences there emerged a story of how early Christians came to think of themselves as a community of Jesus followers. The revelatory events of the Gospels became an invitation to their readers to enter into the experience of Jesus’ disciples, to see what they saw, to hear what they heard, reliving the visions and voices remembered by these first witnesses.
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- Explores the impact of revelatory events (visions and voices) upon early Christian self-identity
- Addresses how visions and voices of God in the Gospels cause witnesses to reevaluate Jesus’s identity
- Suggests that accounts of early Christian revelatory experiences about Jesus prompt witnesses to reconcile these with their tradition
- Religious Experience in New Testament Studies: 1888–Present
- Revelatory Experience and Divine Mandate in Matthew
- Experience as a Wilderness Testing in Mark
- Experience as a New Hermeneutic in Luke
- Experience Reveals by the Spirit in John
- Synthesis
- Title: Vision and Voice: Revelatory Experience in the Formation of Christian Identity
- Author: Mark D. Batluck
- Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Pages: 188
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9781914490002, 1914490002
- Resource ID: LLS:VSNVCCHRSTDNTTY
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-09-12T22:32:27Z