Sublime
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Jesus is the one who demonstrates the will of God better than anyone and in a definitive manner—where to find it and how to realize it.
Leonardo Boff • Jesus Christ Liberator: A Critical Christology for Our Time
The ‘Jesus Seminar’ has rejected Jewish eschatology, particularly apocalyptic, as an appropriate context for understanding Jesus himself, and in order to do so has declared the Markan narrative a fiction.
N. T. Wright • Jesus Victory of God V2: Christian Origins And The Question Of God
“The Church is the Church only when it exists for others” (Bonhoeffer, 1972, 382).
John W. Stewart • Envisioning the Congregation, Practicing the Gospel
most communities of the Anointed of the first and second century publicly acknowledged the paradox that Rome’s defeat of Jesus the Anointed was actually Rome’s defeat.
The Westar Institute • After Jesus Before Christianity
The experiential is central to Paul; faith cannot be divided from your own (or someone else’s testimony of) encountering the living Christ.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
Paul, at the heart of his gospel, was enshrining the Stoic concept of conscience.
Tom Holland • Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind
we have far better historical evidence for the life of Jesus than we do for the crossing of the Rubicon by Caesar, a major event in the history of the Roman Empire, which nobody questions.