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The Finding in the Temple, also called (particularly in art) Christ among the Doctors, the Disputation in the Temple, or variations of those names, is an episode in the early life of Jesus as depicted in the Gospel of Luke . [1] It is the only event of the later childhood of Jesus mentioned in a canonical gospel. [2]
God's mission is calling and sending us, the church of Jesus Christ, to be a missionary church in our own societies, in the cultures in which we find ourselves." [8] Alan Hirsch believes the word missional "goes to the heart of the very nature and purpose of the church itself." He continues, "So a working definition of missional church is a ...
The proclamation of Jesus as Christ is fundamental to Christology and the Confession of Peter, and Jesus's acceptance of the title is a definitive statement for it in the New Testament narrative. [106] While some of this passage may well be authentic, the reference to Jesus as Christ and Son of God is likely to be an addition by Matthew. [107]
John Nolland comments that the good fortune reflected in the "finding" reflects a "special privilege," [1] and a source of joy, but also reflects a challenge, [1] just as the man in the parable gives up all that he has, in order to lay claim to the greater treasure he has found. John Calvin writes of this parable:
New contributions to the Christ-problem (published in English 1907 as The rise of Christianity) wrote, "A Son of God, Lord of the World, born of a virgin, and rising again after death, and the son of a small builder with revolutionary notions, are two totally different beings. If one was the historical Jesus, the other certainly was not.
The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple (1854–1860) is a painting by the English artist William Holman Hunt intended as an ethnographically accurate version of the subject traditionally known as "Christ Among the Doctors", an illustration of the child Jesus debating the interpretation of the scripture with learned rabbis.
He has a son named Hesuklistos (Jesus Christ) who is supposed to be the god of the foreigners. They recognize that Hesuklistos is a god but do not feel he is worthy of worship as he is a minor god. [60] Unlike other religions, Hinduism has no established set of beliefs and thus no universal or common view of Jesus.
By the 4th century, the ideal of the imitation of Christ was well accepted and for Saint Augustine, it was the ultimate goal of conversion, and the fundamental purpose of Christian life. [ 5 ] [ 11 ] Book 7 of the Confessions of St. Augustine includes a well known passage on "at least imitate the lowly God" that confirms the strong Christian ...