By Diarmaid MacCulloch
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ISBN: 978-0-14-192660-5
The Reformation was once the seismic occasion in ecu historical past during the last a thousand years, and one that tore the medieval international aside. not only ecu faith, yet notion, tradition, society, nation platforms, own kin - every little thing - used to be became the other way up. as regards to every thing which in eu heritage will be traced again in a roundabout way to the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation which it provoked. The Reformation is the place the fashionable global painfully and dramatically started, and MacCulloch's nice heritage of it really is known because the top sleek account.
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917-18, beliovcs that Luke has 'by and large preserved the worcfutg of"Q" '. 24 the Pharisees respond 'after hearing' (c'ncooaaVTEs) the disturbing question of the crowd. It is significant that in Matthew and Luke the accusation against Jesus foUows the response ofthc crowd. The charge does not appear 'out of thin air'; it was made because his opponents were distressed by the crowd's response to his miraculous works. Not unlike Mark, the response was to a crisis. Jesus' opponents perceived that the people were being led astray and were forced to render a verdict on the legitimacy of his works.
49. Jcnb, Origins, p. 363; Peerbolte, Amec•deniS, pp. 340-41; so too D. Auoe. Reve/arion6-16(WBC,S2b;ed. M. Metzger; Nashville: Thomas Nelsen, 1998), p. 753. My use of the term 'Endlyrant' is from Jenks. StreETS JesrL< ar Demon-Possessed 39 Bee/zebu/ seems to have an established meaning as a synonym for Salall. How this occurred is unclear since the name does not occur in any literature prior to the gospels, a point that leads some to believe the name was coined on the spot... ~. " The second half of the compound name, ~·floUA, Zebuiil (':>l:ll), has puzzled scholars, yet may be a key as to why the title was used in the accusation.
23. Malina and Neyrey, Calling Jen;s Names, p. 27, nou: that Jesus himselfexercised tbc same type of discernment when be 'saw faith' and 'knew the thoughts• of his oppooenlll. SHEETS Jesus as Demon-Possessed 33 Jesus was labeled a deviant because he acted outside of his social role by being physically mobile. Indeed, the Jesus-movement all wimessed to the fact that its central characteiS were deviants because of their physical mobility. " Jesus' deviance called for a social verdiCI. Some j udged his mobility to mean that be was a wandering 'prophet' or 'teacher', while others (even his own family) as imbalanced or demon-possessed (in service of Bee/zebu/).