SIMULATING CHRIST: LUKE AND JOHN, AND THE CANONICAL CONTROL OF MEANING
George Aichele
ABSTRACT
I examine the effect that the ‘synopsis’ between the gospels of Luke and John have on the New Testament’s intertextual construction of ‘Jesus Christ’. I draw particularly on the theories of Deleuze and of Barthes. I conclude that Luke and John, in combination with the letters of Paul, form a simulacrum of Christ that overwhelms and absorbs any divergences that may appear in the other gospels. This in turn plays a large part in defining the Christian ‘Gospel’ as a theological/ideological construct.
KEYWORDS
Luke; John; canon
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