Nailing It
That’s the sound of unpractised hammering: Different from a nail hit hard, straight, head- To-head, with none of the light repetitive Clinks. And now, over the fence,…
I Can’t Eat With Jesus
Jesus is in this northern mining town he walks the street at night beneath the streetlight’s muted glow missing a few teeth. He’s always alone, and when…
Meditations on Luke 14: The Essence of Freedom Revisited
Luke 14 invites us to appreciate emptiness as necessary condition for receiving the divine gift of the eternal life of the mind. Ascent to the eternal is…
Can the Rich Go to Heaven? A Lesson from Luke 18
Luke 18 opens with Jesus’s responding to his disciples’ discouragement in the face of life’s hardships. Jesus proposes a parable indicating that the question we should ask…
Metanoia, Job, and Jesus Christ
The story of Job is at once ancient and immediate to us. Thousands of years divide us from the primaeval setting of this story, and yet we…
Sanctifying Romanticism: A Review of Andrew Klavan’s “The Truth and Beauty”
Andrew Klavan. The Truth and Beauty: How the Lives and Works of England’s Greatest Poets Point the Way to a Deeper Understanding of the Words of Jesus.…
Passion and Exodus: The Real Story Behind Easter
Throughout the Christian world, except in Germanic-language countries, Easter is known as Passover. The Passover, of course, is a Jewish holy festival—it marks the deliverance of the…
Eric Voegelin on the Incarnate Christ
In his 1965 Ingersoll Lecture “Immortality: Experience and Symbol” Eric Voegelin declared that “the symbolism of incarnation would express the experience, with a date in history, of…
A Phenomenology of Jesus Forsaken
It is not difficult to find reasons to justify a phenomenological approach to the events narrated in the Gospels. The Greek etymology of the word phenomenon –…
One Jesus for Jews, Another for Christians
I. Prospective and Perspective This article offers a revisualization of Jesus, not as a Christian diptych representing Jesus and Christ, the before-and-after-the-Crucifixion figures of conventional historical and…
Eschatology, Geography, and the Advancing Jesus Movement
It will be useful to return to the theme of time and space, which we noted in our second chapter on the New Testament materials. We recall…
Participation and Interpretation Theory
We have endeavored to practice the craft of biblical interpretation along the lines of our participative approach, on the premise that all forms of interpretation might be…
Mapping the Different Approaches
Readers will likely know that Jesus studies and Christology, like other fields of study, exist within an intense conflict of approaches, stemming from the social and historical…
Being, Becoming, and Metaphysics
Being, Becoming, and Metaphysics The reader will have noticed that we have used the language of “being” throughout this entire book. The book’s commitment to history and…
History and Place, Historiogenesis and Geogenesis
History and Place, Historiogenesis and Geogenesis We have seen how our contemporary cross-cultural, global horizon has introduced some new challenges to Christian faith, some of which are…