Sentences with phrase «jesus in contemporary context»

This is why a certain sameness is essential in liturgy, at least to the extent that liturgy celebrates in some way the importance of Jesus in the contemporary context.

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Then, in the context of varying Christological perspectives in contemporary Scripture scholarship, he considers, one by one, Jesus» encounters with women (although oddly Mary, the Mother of Jesus, is omitted from the list).

Matthew regards the parable as an illustration of the «last, first: first, last» principle, but we must assume that it was originally spoken in a context in which Jesus was being attacked for his attitude to «tax collectors and sinners», with all that this implied to many of his contemporaries.

Some of these concentrate on helping to place a passage in its original context so that the reader can be aware of the concerns of the author; others apply the passage to contemporary life; others, following the teaching of St Ignatius Loyola, encourage the reader to use her imagination to picture the scene described and thereby come close to Jesus.

This claim is frequently presented, whether implicitly or explicitly, as a correlative to the idea that Christianity often as personified by Jesus or less frequently by Paul - was «goad» for women, paid them particular attention, or at least offered them opportunities not otherwise available, to caricature, the ideal of «the Feminist Jesus».60 In an admirable and scholarly article Leonard Swidler has marshaled historical evidences to show convincingly that Jesus was a Feminist.61 The politics of such a view is self - evident, for much study of the subject has developed within a context where women were struggling to establish a proper role for themselves within the contemporary church; to this end they have sought an egalitarian past to act as model for present polity.62

The depiction of Jesus as a Cynic philosopher with no concern about Israel's destiny, no connection with the concerns and hopes that animated his Jewish contemporaries, no interest in the interpretation of Scripture, and no message of God's coming eschatological judgment is - quite simply - an ahistorical fiction, achieved by the surgical removal of Jesus from his Jewish context.