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What Did Jesus Say?
Forty years on … (The recording of first generation history.) At Easter, perhaps one billion people around the world commemorate the execution of Jesus of Nazareth twenty centuries ago. They celebrate his supernatural return to life, and honour him as God who became man, and the Saviour of the World. These amazing beliefs, central to […]
Fascinated by Jesus
Still fascinated after all these years by Nils von Kalm http://soulthoughts.com I just watched an amazing video of a portrait of Jesus being put together by a wonderful artist. As I was watching, I realised how fascinated I still am by Jesus. After about 25 years of being a believer, he still challenges me, still […]
Reflections on Easter in St Matthew’s Gospel
By Keith Dyer Professor of NT, Whitley College, University of Melbourne Whether or not we follow the lectionary in our worship and preaching, it isspiritually enriching for us to let each Gospel speak on its own terms about the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.Each distinctive Gospel account has its own validity and profound theology, […]
Retaliation vs Non-violence
Richard Rohr wrote a brief reflection on the revolutionary nature of Jesus’ life, and how freeing it actually is: Shame and honor, and the maintenance of these divisions, were, in fact, primary moral values in the culture Jesus lived in. As a result, required retaliation was the rule in Jewish culture, as it has been […]
Palm Sunday Interactive Liturgy – ‘He kept on walking’
Palm Sunday Interactive Liturgy – ‘He kept on walking’ by Lindy Croucher on Saturday, April 16, 2011 Have someone lined up to represent Jesus. When you begin, have this person walk around the room, and keep walking throughout the whole liturgy. Leader: I want you to imagine Jesus and his disciples walking dusty roads from one […]
The Challenge of Easter (Bishop N T Wright, 2009)
Tom Wright is recognized generally as the English-speaking world’s leading ‘Evangelical’ New Testament scholar/theologian. (Though he mostly prefers to describe himself as an historian). Not all ‘Evangelicals’ like his ideas. Alister McGrath, perhaps the most prolific published author in this genre, reckons that Wright, his fellow Anglican churchman and former Oxford colleague, has ‘lobbed a […]
Jesus’ Self-Understanding
(Originally published in The Incarnation, ed. S. T. Davis, D. Kendall, G. O’Collins 2002, Oxford: OUP, 47–61. Original pagination is retained in bold italicized numbers. Reproduced by permission of the author.) N. T. WRIGHT I INTRODUCTION (A): TODAY’S SITZ IM LEBEN As I prepared to write this short chapter on Jesus’ self-understanding, three things happened to sharpen up in my mind both […]
Bart D. Ehrman, Jesus, Interrupted (review by Ben Witherington)
Bart D. Ehrman, Jesus, Interrupted, (San Francisco: Harper One, 2009), xii +292 pages. Part One ( the first 60 pages) Bart Ehrman is both a gifted writer and a gifted lecturer. Perhaps his best gift is the ability to distill difficult and complex material down to a level that undergraduates and ordinary lay folk can […]
John Dominic Crossan’s ‘blasphemous’ portrait of Jesus
by John Blake (CNN) — One of his first fan letters came from someone who declared: “If Hell were not already created, it should be invented just for you.” Other critics have called him “demonic,” “blasphemous” and a “schmuck.” When John Dominic Crossan was a teenager in Ireland, he dreamed of becoming a missionary priest. […]
Jesus Seminar: Scholarly Critique
The Gospel According to the Jesus Seminar Birger A. Pearson Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies University of California, Santa Barbara NB: This article appears as originally submitted it to the Claremont Graduate School for publication as no. 35 in the “Occasional Papers” series of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity. Dr. Pearson’s Preface refers to […]
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