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<\/a>I watched the movie Atonement<\/a><\/i> last night, and couldn\u2019t help thinking about the New Testament authors. Did the Gospel authors seek to make \u201catonement\u201d for their failures much as the author in the film did? Certainly this seems to be the case in the stories of Jesus\u2019 burial<\/a>, where his burial gets more and more honorable<\/a> as one follows through the canonical Gospels.\nIf there is something that puzzles me, it is why<\/i> they felt the need to do that even when they already had a tradition that God had undone Jesus\u2019 burial altogether. Did the traditions improving on the burial story develop independently of the story of the empty tomb? Or was it simply that in a society where nothing done subsequently could fully counteract the shame of a dishonorable burial?<\/p>\n
Dare I ask in what other ways the New Testament authors might have sought to \u201cmake atonement\u201d in their telling of their stories for the disappointing outcomes and their own failures in historical reality? How should we view such actions on their part? If in the end we were to conclude that, in a sense, they<\/i> were the ones who \u201cmade atonement\u201d, would that make the power of the phenomenon of Christianity seem any less? <\/p><\/div>\n I watched the movie Atonement last night, and couldn\u2019t help thinking about the New Testament authors. Did the Gospel authors seek to make \u201catonement\u201d for their failures much as the author in the film did? Certainly this seems to be the case in the stories of Jesus\u2019 burial, where his burial gets more and more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n