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Jesus’ Empire or the Empire’s Jesus?
Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, 2014AbstractIn response to Burton Mack’s argument in “A Secular Bible?” that a Christian myth or “Christian mentality” drives American empire, this essay suggests that Christian myths should be seen as products of empire. As we can see by looking at 19th and 20th century racist and anti-racist versions of Jesus, base determines superstructure at least some
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Jesus the Beloved, Jesus the Lover
2021Chapter 2 examines the affective centrality of Jesus in both traditions as Beloved and Lover. Jesus the Son of God, the Divine Incarnate, is the exalted Beloved in Ancrene Wisse and the Wooing Group. As an esteemed prophet according to Islamic Christology, Jesus remains a crucial model of solitary-affective asceticism (zuhd) in the Sufi texts—reminding
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Journal of Religion and Health, 1978
To the everyday man or woman, the word "assertive" probably connotes impressions of being outspoken, opinionated, and perhaps more than a little aggressive. Assertiveness can involve these things and often does, but it is not synonymous with aggression, which is usually destructive.
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To the everyday man or woman, the word "assertive" probably connotes impressions of being outspoken, opinionated, and perhaps more than a little aggressive. Assertiveness can involve these things and often does, but it is not synonymous with aggression, which is usually destructive.
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Which Jesus is the Real Jesus?
2013This introductory chapter discusses how the "historical Jesus" of Hermann Samuel Reimarus relates to the "theological Christ" of Martin Kahler. As Dale Allison has demonstrated, from Reimarus to Crossan it has frequently been the faces of the particular authors that are reflected by the images of Jesus they reconstructed in their books.
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Homo Oeconomicus, 2016
This paper offers a rational economic reading of the career of the historical Jesus of Nazareth. A simple two-period model shows that Jesus may have been trapped by the incentive to maintain and increase his following, which led him to raise his challenge to ever higher levels and confront an increasingly hostile opposition; in a kind of ratchet ...
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This paper offers a rational economic reading of the career of the historical Jesus of Nazareth. A simple two-period model shows that Jesus may have been trapped by the incentive to maintain and increase his following, which led him to raise his challenge to ever higher levels and confront an increasingly hostile opposition; in a kind of ratchet ...
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Jesus and the Parables of Jesus in Q
1994The subject of this chapter is not the parables at the level of oral performance by Jesus, but their literary appearance, and the way in which the "Jesus of the parables" becomes the "Jesus of Q". The author says that if the parables were properly explained, they would put the interpreter in contact with the pre- and nondogmatic Jesus.
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2019
AbstractThis essay examines the diverse ways in which representations of Jesus/Christ served as paradigms for authorizing, exemplifying, and promoting early Christian beliefs and practices. It asks how ancients might have read the sex/gender status of Jesus/Christ in such depictions of him as a savvy interlocutor in public debates, an exorcist, an ...
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AbstractThis essay examines the diverse ways in which representations of Jesus/Christ served as paradigms for authorizing, exemplifying, and promoting early Christian beliefs and practices. It asks how ancients might have read the sex/gender status of Jesus/Christ in such depictions of him as a savvy interlocutor in public debates, an exorcist, an ...
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Jesus and The Legacy of Israel Jesus and God
2011Within the overall framework that pits the early Christian movement against its Jewish context, Christian theologians have, on the one hand, emphasized both the distinctiveness of Jesus' understanding of God and the discontinuity between Jesus and Judaism on precisely this point.
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Jesus as News: Crises of Health and Overpopulation in Galilee
Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 2021Joan E. Taylor
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