Go Figure

In his Epiphany 7 sermon Glynn Cardy notices that the story of the Transfiguration is all about blokes. "It’s the obvious things we overlook. Go figure. It’s all about blokes. In particular it elevates to an inner elite three blokes: Peter, James, and John [the latter two being the sons of Zebedee]. But if one carefully reads the New Testament there are a number whom it could be claimed belonged to an inner elite: Mary Magdalene, Mary Jesus’ mother, Andrew, Mary and Martha of Bethany, the Beloved Disciple, James Jesus’ brother… Dom Crossan, the well-known New Testament scholar, posits that the multiple appearance accounts after Jesus’ death reflect the struggle in the early church about who were the rightful leaders of the new movement." The full text of this excellent sermon is at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=498&id=919.