Yes and No
Yes, Jesus is the Son of God, Lord and Christ; the Light of the World and the Bread of Life; and the Way, Truth and Life. He is all of this for me, as a Christian who is also a historian of early Christianity.
Theology Archives
December 21, 2006 10:20 AM
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Easter About Life, not Death
As I understand Easter, to the extent that Easter can be understood, it is not about something happening to the corpse of Jesus, but about the continuing experience of Jesus among his followers after his death.
April 17, 2007 11:31 AM
God Provides, Doesn't Protect
I believe that God is present everywhere, in everything - that the universe is shot through with the radiant presence of God. Thus we are always "in God," even as God is more than the universe.
May 11, 2007 10:33 AM
God's Non-Violent Revolutionary
Was Jesus a social revolutionary? In the ordinary sense in which we use the phrase "social revolutionary," yes. Like the Jewish prophets before him, he was passionate about economic justice and peace, and advocated active non-violent resistance to the domination system of his time. He was a voice of peasant social protest against the economic inequity and violence of the imperial domination system, mediated in the Jewish homeland by client rulers of the Roman Empire - in Galilee, Herod Antipas, and in Judea and Jerusalem, the temple authorities. He spoke of God's kingdom on earth, as the Lord's Prayer puts it: Your kingdom come on earth, as it already is in heaven. Heaven is not the problem - earth is.
