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Jesus Through the Centuries

By and others ⋅ October 20, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Annodomini/introduction-en.html

Jesus Christ (from a sermon by N T Wright)…

By and others ⋅ October 20, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

… The spectacular passage we heard from Colossians, one of the very first and still one of the greatest Christian poems ever written. Colossians 1 encapsulates beautifully and movingly this vision of integrated wisdom, and gives it, breathtakingly, a human face: He is the image of God, the invisible one, firstborn of all creation. For […]

Jesus [43] The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions (29)

By and others ⋅ October 11, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

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 Marcus Borg: ‘I do not myself think there will be a future visible return of Christ… I see the belief in an imminent and manifestly public return […]

Jesus [42] The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions (28)

By and others ⋅ October 10, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

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: [Marcus and I] stand shoulder to shoulder against all attempts to reduce the gospels to a set of theologically inspired fictions… My point remains that […]

Jesus Christ: Choose your own savior

By and others ⋅ October 4, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Jesus Christ: Choose your own savior. By Chris Suellentrop Posted Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2006, at 12:35 PM ET Slate’s “Assessment” columns dissect the conventional wisdom about real people (L. Ron Hubbard), fictional characters (Scooby-Doo), companies (Whole Foods), body parts (the prostate), and even weather patterns (El Nino). This week, Slate is resurrecting a handful of […]

Misquoting Jesus

By and others ⋅ October 4, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Post-Mortem Death by hardening of the categories. by Robert H. Gundry The first thing to say about Bart Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus is that it has little to do with misquoting Jesus.1 You’d think from the subtitle, The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, that the main title signals an expos © of postbiblical changes […]

Jesus [41] The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions (27)

By and others ⋅ September 29, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

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 Marcus Borg: ‘Truly I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the Kingdom of God come with power’… […]

This Is Who I Say He Was

By and others ⋅ September 18, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

(Here’s a modern liberal view of who Jesus was: it’s not – in the main – my view. But I happen to like the way Harry Cook thinks/writes. For those who want their more traditional view of Christianity challenged, it’s worth subscribing to Harry’s email list and he’ll send you something interesting/ provocative each week. […]

Jesus [40] The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions (26)

By and others ⋅ September 15, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

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: ‘Christian spirituality is focused on Jesus, the messiah of Israel… There is no split Christology in the New Testament, no Jesus of history played off […]

Jesus and God

By and others ⋅ September 12, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

First the text: … ‘Whoever has seen me has seen the Father’ (John 14: 8-9). Then a comment from a liberal Christian: … Jesus … set down at the right hand of the throne of God… Nothing about him being god. How does this sit with the Christians here? Are John (or whoever wrote John) […]

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