The John Dominic Crossan Essential Set (Jesus; The Birth of Christianity; The Power of Parable; The Greatest Prayer)

faith-and-doubt

• The divine triplet of name, kingdom, and will and the human triplet of bread, debt, and temptation were like two sides of the same coin—distinguished but not separated.

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obedience-and-authority

• God, for Anselm, was the Norman-style Lord of the Universe. Forgiveness of evil would have meant indifference to evil.

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• Does God will the execution of Jesus? For millions of Christians the answer has been an emphatic: 'Yes, of course, God willed the death of Jesus.'

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• What comes next after 'Give us our daily bread' is—and must be—'and forgive us our debts.'

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mortality

• Gods of power die when the human power that supports them falters and fails. Zeus became irrelevant. Jupiter too simply became irrelevant.

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• 'Death will be no more; mourning and crying and pain will be no more'—but to reach that consummation, blood flowed as high as a horse's bridle.

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