The four Gospels at the center of history
Rosenstock-Huessy considers the four Gospels to be the fruit of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the turning point in world history.
This part of the website is under construction, as I am currently studying Rosenstock-Huessy’s work “The Fruit of the Lips” regarding the Gospels. So there is more to come. But this is what is here for now.
The first 7 sections are quite technical in nature. They are intended to examine the evidential weight of the texts regarding the order in which the Gospels originated. This cannot be separated from their place in history, the urgency to which the Gospel responds, and thereby the message. But anyone who prefers to start with that would be better off beginning with section 8.
1. The four Gospels at the crossroads in history
2. Butler on the priority of Matthew
3. Farrer on the redundancy of a source “Q” for Matthew and Luke
4. Goulder’s view on Luke
5. Farmer: Mark after Luke
6. One gospel out of two
7. Robinson on the dating of the Gospels, all before 70
8. The message of Mark – for whom and why?
Rosenstock-Huessy is brief: the aforementioned work “The fruit of our lips” comprises less than a hundred pages. What is decisive in this work is that the various cultural currents of antiquity are brought together into a unity that transcends each of them individually. The Gospels, Jesus Christ, is the node from which the different currents of human society are turned towards one another. Here begins the unity of the human race.
I am currently carrying out the following program:
1. Explaining what Rosenstock-Huessy means by this positioning of the Gospels.
2. Presenting his reading of the Gospels
3. Testing his reading of the Gospels against common and less common views on the origin and message of the Gospels. And vice versa, incidentally.
I have realized part of the program to such an extent that I can publish it on the website.
This part mainly concerns the interconnectedness, origin, and message of the synoptic Gospels.
