The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Jesus by Tripp Fuller

Author:Tripp Fuller [Fuller, Tripp]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-5064-0125-6
Publisher: Fortress Press

Up to this point, I’ve tried to give you a small taste of a few things: the craziness of Christian claims about Jesus, the historians’ version of the Jewish Jesus, a description of Jesus’ view of the kingdom, and the content of the Gospel stories. At the heart of this book is the claim that, as Christians, our experience and account of God is inseparable from the life and continued presence of Jesus. Christology is a communal reality in search of an explanation. As such, the accounts are quite contextual. After the church came to dominate the West and became a virtual religious monopoly, the conversation around Christ changed.

Just how Christendom affected theology will be clear as we look at two of the most creative thinkers from the epoch of Christian dominance: Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109) and Martin Luther (1483–1546). I’m not going to tell you everything these two guys thought about Jesus, and I’ll try to avoid criticizing them from my own twenty-first-century point of view. What I hope to do is describe how Anselm and Luther gave voice to the experience of God as mediated by Jesus in their eras, through their own particular cultural lenses. As I try to make these older accounts of Jesus have some zing, perhaps we can start to see them as members in a long line of Christ-confessors and not place expectations on their proclamations that they can’t handle.

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