Introducing Jesus
A Graphic Guide
Published on 3. September 2015
176 pages
978-1-78578-013-4 (ISBN)
Description
Christianity depends on the belief that the Jesus of history is identical with the Christ of faith, and that God in the person of Jesus intervened finally and decisively in human history. But is the historical Jesus the same as the Christian Saviour? And how did an obscure provincial religion based on the paradox of a crucified saviour conquer the Roman Empire and outlive it?
INTRODUCING JESUS - A GRAPHIC GUIDE confronts the enigmas. It sets Jesus in the perspective of his time - within Judaism and its expectations of a Messiah, in the atmosphere of Greek philosophy and the Roman deification of emperors. It traces the development of Christianity from St. Paul and the Romanization of the Church, to modern liberation theology. This book is a lucid and exciting investigation that will appeal to all readers, whether Christian or not.
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Anthony O'Hear is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Buckingham and Head of the Department of Education. Judy Groves is a painter, graphic designer and illustrator. She has illustrated numerous Introducing titles.
Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- The Nicene Creed
- What is the Nicene Creed?
- Jesus of Nazareth
- The Evidence that Jesus Existed
- Jesus of History
- Chapter and Verse
- Fact, Fiction or Drama Documentary?
- Judaism at the time of Jesus
- Old Testament Judaism
- A Messiah for the Rebels
- A Messiah for the World's End
- Pharisees and Sadducees
- The Essenes
- Was Jesus an Essene?
- The Wisdom of the Greeks
- New Gods, New Philosophies
- Preaching Foolishness?
- The Quest for the Historical Jesus
- The Gospel Accounts
- The Last Supper
- What did Jesus preach?
- Was Jesus Un-Jewish?
- A Teaching for the End of the World?
- What did Jesus really mean?
- Jesus and the Kingdom of God
- Jesus, the Anointed
- The Messiah, the Son of Man, the Son of God
- The Kingdom of the Poor?
- The Cross
- Ecce Homo (John 19.5)
- The Irony of the Cross
- The Resurrection
- The Mystery of the First Christians
- From the Acts of the Apostles
- The Birth of Christianity
- Pauline Christology
- Jewish Christianity vs. Universal Christianity
- Un-Jewish Greek ideas?
- But is He Man or God?
- The Immaterial Divine in Material Form
- Orthodoxy and Heresy: (1) Docetism
- Against the Flesh
- Jesus not anti-Sex
- Arianism
- The Anthropic Principle
- Jesus, the Pantokrator
- From Early Church to Imperial Religion
- The Persecutions
- 'No to the Emperor!'
- Constantine Christianizes the Roman Empire
- Jesus the Man: Ruler or Slave, Suffering Servant or Political Liberator?
- The State Religion of Christendom
- Following Jesus in Poverty
- Devotional Meditation
- Meek and Mild as the Child Jesus
- Millenarianist Revolutionaries
- Luther
- When the Saints come marchin' in.
- Jesus, 'Our Contemporary'
- Loyola's Meditational Discipline
- The Jesuits
- Other Catholic Mystics
- Emphasizing the Person in Christian Mysticism
- The Sacred Heart of Christ the King
- Liberation Theology
- Assenting to the Lord Jesus
- Foolishness and Wisdom
- The Idea of Redemption
- Can we 'explain away' Christianity?
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
