Add to cartRobert W. Funk
The Gospel of Jesus and the Jesus of the Gospels
Spring 1994
The vision of the historical Jesus that emerges from his authentic sayings
cannot be reconciled with the Christ figure described in the early Christian gospels. Here Robert Funk contrasts the gospel of Jesus with the proclamation of the primitive Christian church found in the
gospels and in the Apostles' Creed. He demonstrates how Jesus of Nazareth was transformed from a wandering sage into a heavenly redeemer in the course of a few years.
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Robert W. Funk
Jesus for a New Millennium
Fall 1996
What does the real Jesus have to say about the religion that bears his name? Robert Funk author
of Honest to Jesus,
maintains that Jesus will remain speechless unless liberated from the scriptural and creedal and experiential dungeons where he lies chained. Funk predicts that, once liberated, Jesus will explode prevailing notions of Christianity.
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Setting Jesus Free
Fall 1995
In the view of Robert Funk, Jesus has been bound up in scriptural and creedal chains. The
renewed quest for the historical Jesus—as carried forward by the Jesus Seminar—has helped to set Jesus free and to explode prevailing notions of Christianity. Robert Funk discusses the shift in our views of
the gospels and Christian origins, the issues raised by the renewed quest, and the possibilities for Christianity recovering its roots.
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Ronald F. Hock
Away with the Manger:
The Infancy Gospels of James and Thomas
Fall 1994
Ronald Hock illuminates the contents, purposes, and backgrounds of the infancy narratives and clarifies their place in the development of a
distinctively Christian tradition.
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Gerd Lüdemann
The Resurrection of Jesus: Hoax or History?
Spring 1995
Is the resurrection of Jesus "both an indispensable requisite of theology and an
empty phrase" as Gerd Luedemann believes. Here he offers his honest answer to the question of what really happened at the resurrection.
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Elaine Pagels
The Origin of Satan
Spring 1995
Who is Satan? How did he
become the embodiment of evil in the New Testament? Bestselling author and scholar Elaine Pagels shows how a struggle between followers of Jesus and the Jewish majority turned into a demonization of
the "intimate enemies"—and how pagans and dissenting Christians also came to be branded agents of Satan.
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Stephen J. Patterson
The Mystery of the Gospel of Thomas
Fall 1994 Stephen Patterson examines the mysteries surrounding the Gospel of Thomas. How
was it lost? Where was it found? Why isn't it in the New Testament? Does it represent a new, independent source for studying Jesus? Does it change our picture of Jesus? What does the Gospel of Thomas have to
do with asceticism and gnosticism?
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Jane Schaberg
Jesus' Birth: Illegitimate or Virginal?
Fall 1995
Focusing on the Gospel of Matthew, Jane Schaberg summarizes the arguments for the gospel text being about an illegitimate conception rather than a miraculous virginal birth.
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Daryl Schmidt
Resurrection: Keeping Jesus in Sight
Spring 1995
Daryl Schmidt makes sense of the various versions of the resurrection by examining relevant
texts for historical traces and exposing the often striking differences among the various reports of the resurrections.
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Chris Shea
Endwatch: Deciphering the Codes of Apocalypticism
Spring 1995 Chris Shea presents an eye-opening view of apocalypticism, showing
that it is more a product of popular culture than of theology. She looks at popular movies, such a Terminator 2 in which she finds a fully-realized film version of the Book of Revelation.
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Thomas Sheehan
The Way the World Ends
Fall 1995
Will the world end in a series of unprecedented events—rapture, second coming? The author of The
First Coming shows how the apocalyptic view of history flies in the face of empirical science and distorts the meaning of Jewish and Christian scriptures.
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John Shelby Spong
Did Christians Invent Judas?
Fall 1994 Was Judas invented by early Christians to transfer the blame for Jesus' death
from the Romans to the Jews? Bishop Spong notes that many of the details of the betrayal were borrowed from Hebrew scriptures. He also observes that the name Judas is a cipher for the Jewish nation. In fact,
he says, everything about the Judas narrative suggests that this is a late-developing legend, created to serve the needs of Gentile Christians in the last half of the first century.
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John Shelby Spong
Reading the Gospels with Jewish Eyes
Fall 1996
Startling new insights emerge when the gospels are read from a Jewish perspective—a
perspective to which many Christians may be blind. Viewed this way, the organizing principle behind the gospels appears not to be memory, biography or history. Instead, the key events of Jesus' life seem to
closely follow an orderly cycle of Jewish feasts and rites of passage.
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