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The Original Jesus (N T Wright, 1996)
This little book (160 pages, lots of illustrations) is the easiest-to-read of any about Jesus and modern scholarship I’ve come across. What follows is not a review, but a miscellany of quotes to whet your appetite. We know for certain that Jesus of Nazareth was crucified… [and] we know that literally thousands of other Jews […]
Truly God is here… and here…
I am writing to you from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia as a brother who has over the past years appreciated you so much. As you may know Ethiopia has a very close tradition with the Jewish, Islamic and Christian faiths. In fact, it was the first country that accepted Christianity as the official state religion. And […]
Torture ‘endemic in many countries’
From: AFP December 11, 2010 FROM the “Jesus Christ” crucifixion technique in Eritrea to the Uzbek practice of chilli pepper enemas, torture is a routine practice for authorities. “One can reasonably estimate that more than half of the member states of the United Nations resort to torture,” said the 370-page report released yesterday by the […]
Christmas reflection 2010
by Nils von Kalm http://soulthoughts.com Singer Jackson Browne – who does not profess a Christian faith – laments the mad consumerism that overtakes us even more at Christmas than it normally does. In his song, The Rebel Jesus, Browne says the following: Well we guard our world with locks and guns And we guard our […]
F F BRUCE: The Real Jesus
I’ve been devouring the easy-to-read books by this man (he wrote more than 40) for over 50 years. I’ve heard him speak only once (to a remarkably small meeting in Melbourne, sometime, I think, in the 1980s). He’s a far better writer than speaker. A quick check of the John Mark Ministries website and my […]
Jesus kicked out of church
A man has been kicked out of a church in the US – for dressing like Jesus. Neil Thompson dresses up like Jesus and goes to a new church every week. But when he got to St Pauls Church in St Louis, Missouri, police were called and he was asked to leave. Melbourne Age Odd […]
HOW DEEP THE FATHER’S LOVE FOR US
On Facebook: The most popular modern song about the Atonement. How do you relate to it? ~~~~ How deep the Father’s love for us, How vast beyond all measure That He should give His only Son To make a wretch His treasure How great the pain of searing loss, The Father turns His face away […]
THE JESUS WHO WAS and WHO IS
by Frederick Buechner The Jesus who was is that fathomless, elusive, unpredictable, haunting, and finally unknowable figure who moves through the homely landscapes of the Synoptics and the twilit dreamscapes of John like a figure in an old newsreel. The film is scratched and faded. Some patches are almost blindingly light-struck and others all but […]
Borg & Wright – The Meaning of Jesus
A very interesting book, this one… Marcus Borg (about as liberal as a Christian can get, if not more so) and NT Wright (fairly conservative) discuss who Jesus was/is, who he thought he was, what he did, etc In general, Borg takes the line that Jesus was a man (but not God) who in some […]
The Modern Search for the Historical Jesus
Some time ago at a conference we both attended, Robert Crotty gave me the hardcopy ms of a book he’d just written. Its title: The Modern Search for the Historical Jesus. It was later published by HarperCollins in 1996 as The Jesus Question: the Historical Search. Thoughtful laypeople and Theology 101 students will find it […]
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