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John Dominic Crossan · 2015
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What this book knows
The Bible's violent and nonviolent visions of God are not a contradiction to resolve but a heartbeat to inhabit — with Jesus as the norm.
faith-and-doubt
There is a recurrent rhythm between the biblical vision of God's nonviolent distributive justice and God's violent retributive justice — the Biblical Heartbeat.
HRBS-RC-018The meaning of that Bible's story is in its middle, in the story of Jesus — the norm and criterion of the Christian Bible.
HRBS-RC-023The Bible contains both the assertion of God's radical dream for our world and our world's very successful attempt to replace the divine dream with a human nightmare.
HRBS-RC-020obedience-and-authority
Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything — the radical Pauline vision domesticated into imperial household codes after his death.
HRBS-RC-017Were such blessings and curses always empirically verifiable? Did theory work out in practice? Were good kings always rewarded?
HRBS-RC-059transformation
We humans are not getting more evil but simply more competent and efficient at whatever we want to do — including sin as willed violence.
HRBS-RC-042Illuminates
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Pattern Recognition