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Jesus [46] The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions (32)
Continuing our summary/review of Tom Wright and Marcus Borg’s discussion… For other articles in this series visit http://jmm.org.au/catalog/section/jc1.htm. These brief excerpts are meant to provoke thought/reflection… The final word from Tom Wright: ‘Once we focus both history and faith on Jesus of Nazareth… we may perhaps find that creation, sacraments, human life, politics, history, and […]
Jesus and the Existence of God
A netfriend (on a Usenet newsgroup) wrote: So, now that we have eliminated the bible as evidence of God, Moi: Have I? Friend: how do you establish a God? 🙂 Moi: Jesus Friend: Would you like to expand some on that. Moi: I’m a little hesitant to begin what might (should?) be a long thread […]
Trinity
“…We must say if Trinitarian theology had not existed, it would be necessary to invent it. That, in fact, is effectively what the first generation of Christians did, worshipping Jesus within the framework of Jewish monotheism. “ (N T Wright, The Challenge of Jesus)
Jesus and God
Netfriend 1: Personally, having sought but not found some of the particulars of classic creedal statements regarding the nature of Christ’s deity in the scriptures themselves, I would prefer that everyone studying such matters were even a bit more honest about what the NT does and doesn’t say. I am in particular thinking of such […]
Jesus And The Identity Of God (N T Wright)
JESUS AND THE IDENTITY OF GOD (Originally published in Ex Auditu 1998, 14, 42–56. Reproduced by permission of the author.) N. THOMAS WRIGHT To address the subject of the theological significance of the earthly Jesus I take as my topic the central question of Jesus and God. The question must be approached from both sides. […]
Jesus And The Identity Of God (N T Wright)
< Return to part 1 What are we therefore saying about the earthly Jesus? In Jesus himself, I suggest we see the biblical portrait of YHWH come to life: the loving God, rolling up his sleeves (Isa 52:10) to do in person the job that no one else could do, the creator God giving new […]
Jesus Seminar
The members of the Jesus Seminar are progressive theologians, but that doesn’t mean that all progressive theologians agree with the Jesus Seminar people. There is even disagreement between people involved in the Jesus Seminar. For example, Walter Wink says (for the rest of the article see http://www.westarinstitute.org/Periodicals/4R_Articles/Wink_bio/wink_bio.htm l) “I participate with an uneasy conscience in […]
Jesus Seminar: some comments
Some interesting comments from a few netfriends on the Jesus Seminar: [1]: The Jesus of the NT presents us with a lot of questions to answer and the way we answer those questions probably puts us in one group or the other, broadly speaking. The fascinating thing about the labels is that there are usually […]
Jesus [44] The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions (30)
Continuing our summary/review of Tom Wright and Marcus Borg’s discussion… For other articles in this series visit http://jmm.org.au/catalog/section/jc1.htm. These brief excerpts are meant to provoke thought/reflection… More from Tom Wright: ‘[Our aim is] to get into the minds of our subjects… When we do so, the categories that Jesus’ own world offered to describe someone […]
Jesus… God’s Messiah (N T Wright)
We… must learn again and again the lessons that Peter himself had to learn between that moment of sudden understanding – You’re God’s Messiah! – and the time when he stood up in front of a surprised Jerusalem crowd on the first Pentecost morning and announced fearlessly that God had shown Jesus of Nazareth to […]
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