The Contemporary Historical-Jesus By Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza

Jesus and the Disinherited begins the first chapter with the interpretation of Jesus. Dr. Thurman explained that Jesus was a poor Jew and was a minority in the midst of a dominate society. Dr. Thurman gives his analysis on the worldviews Jesus. People around the world have their own interpretation of Jesus; yet, people have an orthodox view of him being fully God and fully man. In chapter one, the author references the nonviolent resistance approach, which is a tactic Dr. Martin Luther King Jr used in the civil rights movements. He interprets Jesus as a black man who lived his life as an outsider in the world. Jesus was the disinherited and oppressed like African Americans.

In reading this section of editors J.J. Mueller’s Theological Foundations, I have been able to come to an understanding that in order to understand the Bible in its full we must dive deeper into the study of Christ, otherwise known as Christology. In order to begin to break down Christology, we must pose the question “who do you say that I am?” (80). We know that Jesus was a storyteller, He brought fourth his ideas through these stories and parables to teach the Jews and the Gentiles about the kingdom of God and what it has to offer. Not only in this chapter do we get an explanation of Jesus and His amazing stories but we also get an understanding of His unprecedented miracles.

In the book Simply Jesus, N.T. Wright makes three different claims throughout. N.T. Wright's first claim is about the “perfect storm”. The “perfect storm” takes up a large section of the first few chapters, and in those chapters N.T. Wright writes about that to enter the “perfect storm” you must step out of your own storm that is happening in your life, you must jump back into the “perfect storm” just as Jesus did in his own life. N.T. Wright fails to fully support the idea of the “perfect storm” throughout the book. Wright writes about the two myths that create the “storms”, the first is “… the high-pressure system of conservative Christianity” and the second is “... the new classic modernist myth…”. N.T. Wright loses his credibility to his claims by never giving evidence that disproves they myths. N.T. Wright states that the stories in the bible “...’really did happen’. And there the matter ends…. Facts or no facts”. N.T. Wrights claims are never fully

Bradley Pettit English 2 Period 1 April 18-May 2, 2018 The Life of Jesus (Hook) Albert Einstein once said, “It’s just as difficult being smart as it is being ignorant.” Nobody in the history of the world has been smarter about the word of God than Jesus. (Thesis statement).

An prophetic figure common to both the Bible and the Qur’an is Jesus, however, Jesus is presented in a different ways in both texts. Sometimes the differences are subtle and sometimes more radical. The New Testament stories about Jesus from primary sources, such as his disciples. The Qur’an was written much later in the time of Mohammad in approximately 650 AD and Jesus’ life, and its power, comes from received wisdom diluted by generations of people.

One of the most prominent and well thought out connotative aspects that provided the movie with sufficient symbolism was the characters. If we look at the characters in the movie we can find their particular essence or personalities to those of historical figures in the Bible. Neo for starters was prominently portrayed as Jesus Christ as mentioned earlier in the essay. He was referred to as the chosen one continuously and people awaited his rise. However, there are two sides to his character I would like to point out. One being Neo that obviously signifies Jesus Christ; the second being his Matrix personality, Thomas Anderson. I believe he was very cleverly given the name as Thomas could be referred to ‘Doubting Thomas’ in the Bible. Doubting

Hildegard’s gender is of course not an accident. Throughout history, we have claimed Hildegard as the first Christian thinkers to deal seriously and positively with feminine issues, as well as the challenges posed by and for women in a patriarchal society. She formulated her thoughts within the traditional framework of christian symbols, through the great reflection on the great feminine representations and essence of Eve, Mary, and Mother church. In our current struggles of spirituality and gender, Hildegard can be a guide. Her visionary forms fade into one another, but within all of them and behind them all, shines neither women nor man, but the living light. By using Hildegard of Bingen as a central figure in 12th century religious practice, we can then use Chritianity as an example to compare and contrast women’s experiences in religious practice in the 12th century and the 21st century.

The primary focus of each of the three quests for the historical Jesus, endeavors a series of approach to challenge the legitimacy of the Synoptic Gospels as an unreliable resource to study Jesus existence; even more, to question the NT portrayal of Jesus veracity, through an intellectual group of scholars applying other ancient book in their research into what is known as today “the Quest of the Historical Jesus.” Unlike the first century Christians, “It was widely assumed that the Jesus presented in the Bible was the man who lived and died—and rose—in Palestine in the first century.”1

Over the years authors and movie producers have found great interest on displaying their desire to explain or narrate various versions of the story of Jesus. The story of Jesus has a great and vast audience ranging from young children to the older generations. Therefore I shall be talking about my observations from the movies

friends. Their speaking in foreign tongues became their badge of honor. Competitiveness emerged to see who was more orthodox and more gentle and humble. All their time was devoted to performing good deeds as hurriedly as possible, not wanting their consecration to be challenged. One easy method to prove their devotion was to discover those in hiding without the mark and reveal them to the police. Everyone believed it a duty to report to authorities anyone not giving their loyalty to sweet Jesus. When such sinful people refused to repent, and were publicly executed, Christians of the world shook their heads in disbelief. They could not imagine the extent of the depth of a fallen nature capable of blinding people to such ruin.

The Jesus Paper. Question 1. John’s purpose in writing the gospel is so that people might believe “that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing, [one] may have life in his name” (Jn. 20:31). So, the essential identity of Jesus is “the Christ” which is a Greek word for “chosen one” or “anointed one.”

Lights cameras action. Welcome to the auditions for the teachings of Jesus- a Call to social action's production of the prodigal son.

As I consider the statement, “Despite the tremendous importance of Jesus in Christianity, Paul played an even more important role than Jesus in shaping Christian beliefs and practices” (Butler, 2016), a lot goes thru my mind. The first being, I knew that it was too good to be true, that we did not have any discussion questions this week. As I checked on Sunday and continued through Monday evening. Secondly, I think of the age old question, the one about the chicken and the egg. I believe that most of us, have attempted to logically come up with an answer. However, for those without faith, it becomes an exercise in absolute futility, just as a circle has no beginning, and no end. For those with faith, we look to the Bible, which shows

In Chapter 3 Schneiders portrays Jesus as one who gave himself fully she says, “Jesus, in the ultimate act of self-abnegation, gave his life for his fellow human beings but without losing himself” (98). Also, she explains that Jesus negotiated differences between his Judaic faith and his spirituality: “He both belonged to and transcended his tradition. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find Jesus repudiating his Jewish tradition” (100). Third, she states, “Jesus mediated the tension between the particularity of his life and situation and the universality of his concern though the category of the Reign of God” (101).

"As truly as God is our Father, so truly is God our Mother, and he revealed that in everything, and especially in these sweet words where he says:... I am he, the power and goodness of fatherhood; I am he, the wisdom and the lovingness of motherhood"(Damarosch,478). In today's society it is commonplace, even routine to think of Christian divinity in terms of male gender. How amazing it seems then, to be presented with medieval language which portrays God as a female gendered divinity. Where did the idea arise to portray God as feminine? And what purpose does it serve? This essay seeks to examine whether Julian of Norwich's gender construction of the divine is subversive and radical in light of the reduced power of women in medieval