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Medieval theology

image: Letters headerRegarding Jenny Adams’s article, “Positively Medieval” (December/99), I find it strange that Adams describes Fulton as seeming to assert that “Before that time [the turn of the first millennium], pious Christians prayed to Christ as the all-powerful King of Heaven rather than as the man who died a humiliating death.” My understanding of the early Christians was their joy in proclaiming the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.

I quote from Raymond E. Brown’s The Birth of the Messiah (1977): “The oldest Christian preaching about Jesus concerned the death and resurrection, as may be seen in the formulas of Acts 2:23, 32; 3:14–15; 4:10; 10:39–40; and I Cor 15:3–4. Not only did these events constitute the clearest instance of God’s salvific action in Jesus, but also it was through them that the disciples came to a more adequate understanding of who Jesus really was.”

Irving E. Fasan, AB’47, JD’57
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

 

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