[lit-ideas] Re: Hijacking Christianity
- From: "Phil Enns" <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 21:30:20 -0500
Eric Yost wrote:
"The hijacking would then amount to the additions and framing of Q by
the Gospel writers as well as the ideological additions made by Paul and
other writers of canonical epistles."
Nope. Q is a scholarly reconstruction of a hypothesized ur-text. It is
the Q scholarship that hijacks the Christian Scriptures for its own
purposes. Without the Christian Scriptures, there could be no Q. This
is not to deny the possibility of a Q, only that if one wants to talk
about Q one has to begin with the _Christian_ texts.
It is worth keeping in mind that the books that comprise the Christian
New Testament have their formation and canonization within the active
life of the earliest Christian communities. Ironically, it is this
context that leads many people to reject the books as not historical and
as giving little insight into a character named Yeshua.
Sincerely,
Phil Enns
Toronto, ON
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