Tag: Apostle Paul

• Questions about Jesus (iii)

  In this series of blogs, I’ve been asking firstly why Jesus was crucified, and secondly why not his followers who, instead, were allowed to publicly proclaim him, in the very city in which he’d recently been arrested and crucified – the punishment reserved for insurrectionists against the Roman Empire. Jesus was, arguably, the wrong person,…

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  27th Aug 2022

  Christianity, Jesus of Nazareth, Literature, New Testament, Religion

  Anti-Semitism, Apostle Paul, Crucifixion, Freedom fighters, God, Jerusalem, Jesus, Kingdom of God, Passover, Rebellion

• Rethinking Jesus (02) The Sources

  At the time of Jesus, it’s been estimated that at least 90% of Palestine’s population was more or less illiterate. In the beginning, therefore, stories about what Jesus said and did, would have been oral, not written. They’d have been carried (and translated), by word of mouth, from Aramaic Palestine to Greek speaking cities in…

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  25th Jan 2022

  Christianity, Jesus of Nazareth, Literature, Mythology, New Testament, Religion

  Apostle Paul, Crucifixion, Gospels, Jesus, John's Gospel, New Testament

• Rethinking Jesus (01) In the Beginning …

  As a follow-on from my series about God, I want to explore what I currently think and feel about Jesus of Nazareth. If I regard ‘God’ as not so much a person as a process, as transcendental ‘Ground-of-Being-Itself’, what implications does this have for how I see Jesus? Let’s forget what 20 succeeding centuries have…

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  21st Jan 2022

  Christianity, Jesus of Nazareth, Literature, Mythology, New Testament, Religion

  Apostle Paul, Gospels, Jesus, Jew, Josephus, New Testament, Tacitus