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Jesus and the Kingdom: Peasants and Scribes in Early Christianity
(Jesus at 2000 series)
VHS
75 minutes
BT303.2 .J521 1996
27th National Conference of Trinity Institute 1996
John Dominic Crossan - Doninic Crossan takes an interdisciplinary approach
to the historical Jesus. Drawing upon history, anthropology, and archeology,
he argues that Jesus' vision of the kingdom of God was not apocalyptic.
Rather, he claims that Jesus believed that God has given us the "wisdom"
to see what must be done, the freedom to do it, and is waiting for us to
bring the kingdom about.
Crossan sees Jesus as a courageous Jewish peasant and a radical revolutionary, who deliberately challenged the social and religious conventions of his day. He argues that his message was sympathetic with the disposed "itinerants" in first-century Israel and challenged those who owned land, the "householders," to share all they had with the destitute in society.
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