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Gospel
About: Gospel is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 7397 publications have been published within this topic receiving 63235 citations. The topic is also known as: Evangelium.
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01 Jan 1985
TL;DR: The contextual model of local theology concentrates on the real problems and concerns of real people, in their faith and larger communities as mentioned in this paper, and local theologies are more accurately understood as "the local Christian community theologizing."
Abstract: Classic work shows how different cultures share the one Gospel of Jesus Christ. The contextual model of local theology concentrates on the real problems and concerns of real people, in their faith and larger communities. Local theologies are more accurately understood as "the local Christian community theologizing." This book provides a thoughtful perspective for those engaged in small Christian communities worldwide.
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01 Jan 1975
TL;DR: The role that social and historical context plays in framing the questions we address to God as well as the mode of the answers provided is discussed in this paper, where Cone relates the gospel message to the experience of the black community.
Abstract: In his reflections on God, Jesus, suffering, and liberation, James H. Cone relates the gospel message to the experience of the black community. But a wider theme of the book is the role that social and historical context plays in framing the questions we address to God as well as the mode of the answers provided.
414 citations
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01 Jan 1991
TL;DR: The Historical Jesus by John Dominic Crossan as discussed by the authors reveals the true historical Jesus, who he was, what he did, and what he said, as well as his actual words and actions.
Abstract: "He comes as yet unknown into a hamlet of Lower Galilee. He is watched by the cold, hard eyes of peasants living long enough at a subsistence level to know exactly where the line is drawn between poverty and destitution. He looks like a beggar yet his eyes lack the proper cringe, his voice the proper whine, his walk the proper shuffle. He speaks about the rule of God and they listen as much from curiosity as anything else. They know all about rule and power, about kingdom and empire, but they know it in terms of tax and debt, malnutrition and sickness, agrarian oppression and demonic possession. What, they really want to know, can this kingdom of God do for a lame child, a blind parent, a demented soul screaming its tortured isolation among the graves that mark the edges of the village" - from "The Gospel of Jesus," overture to The Historical Jesus The Historical Jesus reveals the true Jesus-who he was, what he did, what he said. It opens with "The Gospel of Jesus," Crossan's studied determination of Jesus' actual words and actions stripped of any subsequent additions and placed in a capsule account of his life story. The Jesus who emerges is a savvy and courageous Jewish Mediterranean peasant, a radical social revolutionary, with a rhapsodic vision of economic, political, and religious egalitarianism and a social program for creating it. The conventional wisdom of critical historical scholarship has long held that too little is known about the historical Jesus to say definitively much more than that he lived and had a tremendous impact on his followers. "There were always historians who said it could not be done because of historical problems," writes Crossan. "There were always theologians who said it should not be done because of theological objections. And there were always scholars who said the former when they meant the latter.' With this ground-breaking work, John Dominic Crossan emphatically sweeps these notions aside. He demonstrates that Jesus is actually one of the best documented figures in ancient history; the challenge is the complexity of the sources. The vivid portrayal of Jesus that emerges from Crossan's unique methodology combines the complementary disciplines of social anthropology, Greco-Roman history, and the literary analysis of specific pronouncements, anecdotes, confessions and interpretations involving Jesus. All three levels cooperate equally and fully in an effective synthesis that provides the most definitive presentation of the historical Jesus yet attained.
366 citations