We come to the upper levels of our archeological dig into New Testament ethics: the Gospels. The writers of the Gospels wrote them as bioi, that is, biographical narratives of the words and deeds and death (and resurrection) of Jesus of Nazareth. The Gospels are not ethical codes of conduct. Burridge points out that there [...]
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As we move up in our metaphorical archaeological dig from “the event of Jesus,” the bedrock, we come to the layer of Paul and his letters. Burridge asks, in effect, was Paul a Jesus-follower or the founder of a new religion? Arguing from Paul’s own words, Burridge establishes that Jesus reshapes both “Paul’s own biography” [...]
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We’re commenting on Richard A. Burridge’s Imitating Jesus: An Inclusive Approach to New Testament Ethics.
Jesus of Nazareth is the bedrock event that grounds the reality of and studies about New Testament ethics (see Part 1 of this series).
In section II of the book Burridge asks, “Jesus of Nazareth: Great Moral Teacher or Friend of Sinners?” [...]
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For my birthday, my friend Jeremy Bouma gave me a copy of Richard A. Burridge, Imitating Jesus: An Inclusive Approach to New Testament Ethics.
I am a third of the way through the book and I am fascinated. The book is worthy of a few posts here at Jesus the Radical Pastor.
Burridge, an Anglican pastor and [...]
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Posted in Reviews on Dec 9th, 2007
Karen Spears Zacharias of Hero Mama fame has written a review of my little book Out of Print: A Novel. Here’s a bit of what Karen writes, “But Out of Print is not a novel designed to scare the bejezuz into people. It’s a novel designed to provoke thought, intelligent thought, about what it would [...]
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While the snowball is still small, it’s rolling!**
I have been interviewed twice by Jack Haveman of WGNB (89.3), the local Moody Radio affiliate. Jack sent a copy of the interview along with a copy of the book to folks at WMBI in Chicago–the mother ship. I also have an opportunity to do an interview on [...]
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