Jesus: a new vision by Marcus J. Borg

Author:Marcus J. Borg
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780281047222
Publisher: London : SPCK, 1993.
Published: 1993-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

THREAT: HISTORICAL CATASTROPHE

Thus Jesus indicted the politics of holiness, that way of organizing a social world shaped by the ethos of holiness and hardened into a quite rigid ideology under the pressure of conflict. Indeed, Jesus saw the conventional wisdom of his time, with its division of the world into pure and impure, righteous and outcast, rich and poor, neighbor and enemy, to be leading to catastrophe and judgment. Like the prophets before him, he warned that Jerusalem and the temple would be destroyed by military conquest unless the culture radically changed its direction. In order to see the full significance of these threats, we need first to describe the role Jerusalem and the temple played in the Jewish social world.

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