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In the Christian tradition, “justice” has often been seen as something far removed from Jesus’ life and teaching. Influential theologian Reinhold Niebuhr famously wrote of Jesus providing our ideals, the “impossible possibility” of loving our neighbors and forgiving seventy time seven.
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The ethical importance of Jesus’ death; The Lamb’s Power and...
- Restorative Justice
Romans 3:21-24: Now, separate from works of the law, the...
- 7. Justice in Romans and Revelation
Jesus’ own life of freedom from the Powers and their...
- Healing Justice (1.11.09)
Justice, in Amos, is the solution; it is what the community...
- 5. Old Testament Justice (Amos)
Justice is about healing; justice is about...
- 58. The Handsome Family—THROUGH The Trees
Brett and Renee Sparks have a great partnership—she writes...
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Jan 9, 2003 · Jesus led a morally perfect life, teaching and healing (probably performing miracles), and died as a result of an unjust judicial verdict. He taught the importance of supererogatory love, prayer, and repentance; and that there would be a judgement that would separate the good from the bad.
Jesus’ message of repentance and turning to God was coupled with a message of generosity, forgiveness, love, and justice. The Gospels portray Jesus as a powerful teacher, who often taught through evocative parables. In one parable, a man is robbed, beaten, and left on the road.
The book contains detailed analyses of many Gospel passages and covers themes of particular prominence in Jesus' teaching, including justice, wealth, forgiveness and love. Reviews "It was a happy day for the common reader when Cambridge launched its series on 'Understanding Jesus Today.'
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What are the facts about the life of Jesus, as opposed to the myths, or unprovable tenets of faith surrounding the miracles, death, and resurrection? How and when did Christianity become a separate religion from the Judaism into which Jesus was born? To what extent was his power over contemporaries political rather than religious? A. N.
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Jan 1, 2006 · From top Jesus expert Marcus Borg, a completely updated and revised version of his vision of Jesus—as charismatic healer, sage, and prophet, a man living in the power of the spirit and dedicated to radical social change. Fully revised and updated, this is Borg's major book on the historial Jesus.
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In the personality of Jesus, the teacher, are two conspicuous elements. The first I shall call unity. This unity was consti- tuted of the elements of his character through a union of con- tradictories.
