My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally.
It is impossible to avoid the suspicion that historical Jesus research is a very safe place to do theology and call it history, to do autobiography a… - John Dominic Crossan
It is impossible to avoid the suspicion that historical Jesus research is a very safe place to do theology and call it history, to do autobiography a…
- John Dominic Crossan
I find anthropology is a marvellous discipline to shock me out of my own world into another world. - John Dominic Crossan
I find anthropology is a marvellous discipline to shock me out of my own world into another world.
What I notice, as a historian reading stories about so-called nature miracles, the walking on the water, or the miraculous catch of fishes, they're d… - John Dominic Crossan
What I notice, as a historian reading stories about so-called nature miracles, the walking on the water, or the miraculous catch of fishes, they're d…
Jesus is what God looks like in sandals - John Dominic Crossan
Jesus is what God looks like in sandals
If somebody says, you know, to love your enemies, you could say, 'Well I'm going to love them to death.' We've done that sort of stuff so it can be d… - John Dominic Crossan
If somebody says, you know, to love your enemies, you could say, 'Well I'm going to love them to death.' We've done that sort of stuff so it can be d…
Jesus told parables. When he wanted to say something really profound about God, he went into parable. I don't find it surprising then that when earli… - John Dominic Crossan
Jesus told parables. When he wanted to say something really profound about God, he went into parable. I don't find it surprising then that when earli…
Jesus' death by crucifixion under Pontius Pilate is as sure as anything historical can ever be. For if no follower of Jesus had written anything for … - John Dominic Crossan
Jesus' death by crucifixion under Pontius Pilate is as sure as anything historical can ever be. For if no follower of Jesus had written anything for …
The ... challenge of Christmas is this: justice is what happens when all receive a fair share of God's world and only such distributive justice can e… - John Dominic Crossan
The ... challenge of Christmas is this: justice is what happens when all receive a fair share of God's world and only such distributive justice can e…
I'm talking from the point of view of the States, we tend to assassinate people like Jesus, or if we don't we simply marginalise them. Oprah would ha… - John Dominic Crossan
I'm talking from the point of view of the States, we tend to assassinate people like Jesus, or if we don't we simply marginalise them. Oprah would ha…
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