Gospel authorship question: are the NAB notes definitive?

[mccorm45]

Might I add another good resource for this discussion on Gospel authorship:
God and the World by Cardinal Ratzinger (A Conversation with Peter Seewald)

Seewald ask Cardinal Ratzinger specifically about authorship in chapter 10 of the book/interview. It is worth reading his reflections. He clearly states that the Gospels developed through a complex process. Here is a small selection of what he says:

" In a certain sense, then, the question about particular people is secondary. Certainly, we can clearly recognize the individual character Luke. He is the undisputed author of the third Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles. Mark, too, as a pupil of Peter, clearly has his own profile as an evangelist. It is no longer clear, today, who was responsible for the final editing of the Gospel of Matthew. What is fundamental is that oral transmission came at the beginning, as is so characteristic n the Orient. That guarantess the close connection with the historical origin. The texts that grew out of this oral tradition were subject to community control ( a process that led, in the particular communities that picked up these traditions, to a specific coloring, but without affecting their fidelity (230)."

 

[diggerdomer]

Pluralism and Cafeteria Catholic beliefs

You failed to see your error. You cannot pick and choose what you want to believe in Catholicism. If you want see where I have done wrong in this forum, I suggest doing a search on RSV-CE. There you will spot my errors. Believe me there will be a time that we will agree on something. I have to lay down the law and get serious when the faith is at steak. I have God, Fr. Mitch, Fr. Corapi, Mother Angelica among others to thank for their kind words of wisdom for me to bear fruit and you to bear even more fruit.

Thank you for responding. I am sorry that you chose the way you did, I would have enjoyed further reasonable, rational, and charitable conversation with you, but obviously you are unwilling or unable to do that.

Thank you, too, for laying down the law and getting serious. The rest of us are here, of course, for frivolous reasons and obviously don’t take this as seriously as you do and have nowhere near your education and experience.

Best wishes and happy Easter. Enjoy whatever conversations you have here.

 

[diggerdomer]

Might I add another good resource for this discussion on Gospel authorship:
God and the World by Cardinal Ratzinger (A Conversation with Peter Seewald)

Seewald ask Cardinal Ratzinger specifically about authorship in chapter 10 of the book/interview. It is worth reading his reflections. He clearly states that the Gospels developed through a complex process. Here is a small selection of what he says:

" In a certain sense, then, the question about particular people is secondary. Certainly, we can clearly recognize the individual character Luke. He is the undisputed author of the third Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles. Mark, too, as a pupil of Peter, clearly has his own profile as an evangelist. It is no longer clear, today, who was responsible for the final editing of the Gospel of Matthew. What is fundamental is that oral transmission came at the beginning, as is so characteristic n the Orient. That guarantess the close connection with the historical origin. The texts that grew out of this oral tradition were subject to community control ( a process that led, in the particular communities that picked up these traditions, to a specific coloring, but without affecting their fidelity (230)."

Great reference. Thank you!

 

[tobinatorstark]

Thank you for responding. I am sorry that you chose the way you did, I would have enjoyed further reasonable, rational, and charitable conversation with you, but obviously you are unwilling or unable to do that.

Thank you, too, for laying down the law and getting serious. The rest of us are here, of course, for frivolous reasons and obviously don’t take this as seriously as you do and have nowhere near your education and experience.

Best wishes and happy Easter. Enjoy whatever conversations you have here.

You are sorry that chose the Magesterium and the Catholic Church and believe in what the Church teaches??? There a more people than me on this forum that are serious about the Catholic faith. Some of us on the forum choose not to take their faith seriously and look at it as joke. My education and experience grows day by day. Why might you ask?? Because I can’t learn enough about the Catholic faith. I admit I have been wrong on this forum before. Don’t try to make it look I know all that when I don’t know all that. I am not perfect, but at least there are people here who try to help me along the way.

 

[mccorm45]

You are sorry that chose the Magesterium and the Catholic Church and believe in what the Church teaches??? There a more people than me on this forum that are serious about the Catholic faith. Some of us on the forum choose not to take their faith seriously and look at it as joke. My education and experience grows day by day. Why might you ask?? Because I can’t learn enough about the Catholic faith. I admit I have been wrong on this forum before. Don’t try to make it look I know all that when I don’t know all that. I am not perfect, but at least there are people here who try to help me along the way.

Tobinator,

I think the problem is that you inflame the discussion by using ad hominen attacks. In this thread, you basically accused diggerdomer of being a Cafeteria Catholic because of his discussion on the authorship of the Gospels. This is a fair debate that many orthodox Catholic’s disagree on. In my previous two posts, I have given you documentation, most notably by Pope Benedict, which shows this point. I think the best course of action in any discussion is to give people the benefit of the doubt, before throwing accusations at them.

 

[diggerdomer]

Tobinator,

I think the problem is that you inflame the discussion by using ad hominen attacks. In this thread, you basically accused diggerdomer of being a Cafeteria Catholic because of his discussion on the authorship of the Gospels. This is a fair debate that many orthodox Catholic’s disagree on. In my previous two posts, I have given you documentation, most notably by Pope Benedict, which shows this point. I think the best course of action in any discussion is to give people the benefit of the doubt, before throwing accusations at them.

Thank you. I agree and appreciate your comments. I’m really trying to learn here myself.