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Gen. 11:1–9),

To take a step back once more, when people write about “atonement theology,” the tendency has been to go to Paul and Hebrews and to come to the gospels only for those detached phrases that will support (or so it seems) the kind of “theological” construct that has already been culled from Paul.

Donald McGavran’s The Bridges of God: A Study in the Strategy of Missions.11 McGavran had been a missionary in India, and his book studied people groups with massively distinct socio-cultural and religious differences.

this general thrust, of a very Jewish Jesus who was nevertheless opposed to some high-profile features of first-century Judaism, seems to me the most viable one if we are to do justice, not just to the evidence of the synoptic gospels (they, after all, are easy game for any critic who wants to avoid their implications) but more particularly to the

The basic fact is that Christianity as it was born in the mind of this Jewish teacher and thinker appears as a technique…

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the poverty alleviation initiatives used by many Christians are deeply rooted in false “metanarratives,” overarching accounts of the nature of God, of human beings, and of the world. Metanarratives lead to a “story of change,” an understanding of the goal of life and of how that goal can be achieved.