Being Emmanuel: Matthew's Ever-Present Jesus?
Among the New Testament Gospels, Matthew most emphatically stresses the continued presence of Jesus throughout his ministry and with his disciples after Easter. This is despite sensitivity to the challenge of the cross and experiences of absence or deprivation. Structurally, the Gospel develops this...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2022
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New Testament studies
Year: 2022, Volume: 68, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-12 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Jesus Christus
/ Presence
/ Absence
/ Temple
/ Shekina
/ Incarnation of Jesus Christ
/ Redemption
/ Church
/ Mission (international law
/ Resurrection
/ Bible. Matthäusevangelium 1,23
/ Bible. Matthäusevangelium 1,21
/ Bible. Matthäusevangelium 28,19-20
/ Bible. Matthäusevangelium 18,20
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IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament NBF Christology |
Further subjects: | B
Incarnation
B Salvation B Church B Resurrection B Temple B Shekhinah B Absence B Presence B Mission (international law |
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Summary: | Among the New Testament Gospels, Matthew most emphatically stresses the continued presence of Jesus throughout his ministry and with his disciples after Easter. This is despite sensitivity to the challenge of the cross and experiences of absence or deprivation. Structurally, the Gospel develops this affirmation in relation to the narrative of Jesus’ birth and incarnation, to his ministry, to the governance of the Christian community in its apostolic mission to Israel and the nations. Matthew never quite articulates how this continued presence actually works, whether in spatial or sacramental or pneumatological terms. And yet the emphatic correlation of ‘Jesus’ and ‘Emmanuel’ confirms that each is constituted by the other: being ‘God with us’ (Matt 1.23) means precisely to ‘save his people’ (1.21), and vice versa. |
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ISSN: | 1469-8145 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: New Testament studies
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0028688521000254 |