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Author: Beverly Roberts Gaventa Edition Language: English ISBN10: 0802824714 ISBN13: 9780802824714 Pages: 345

Description: An excellent, scholarly in-depth collection for anyone seeking truth that identifies the essential real Jesus of scripture and history as opposed to the aberrant concepts floating around today. “Christ plays in ten thousand places.” -- Gerald Manley Hopkins Is Jesus the angry legalistic god of the Ku KLux Klan? The militaristic god of the Third Reich? The judgmental god of fundamentalism? Eerdmans recently published Seeking the Identity of Jesus: A Pilgrimage, edited by Beverly Roberts Gaventa of Princeton and Richard Hays from Duke. In the book’s introduction, the editors point out that in some evangelical circles today, Jesus is seen as “quietistic personal savior” concerned only with the forgiveness of individual sin and subsequent close relationship with a loving God and assurance of heaven in the next life. Some evangelicals would add the return of Christ in judgment to sweep away evil, all of which is comforting, and in my opinion, true. That view may, however, neglect the involvement of Jesus in real world problems today -- problems like poverty, racism, anti-Semitism, war, environmental stewardship and justice, for example. In fact, seeing Jesus as the “quietistic personal savior” can provide psychological comfort while justifying the ignoring of social issues. Then there is the Jesus of conservative politics who comes draped in the red, white and blue to authorize the “American way of life”, justify war, and promote capitalism. This Jesus still offers individual forgiveness, but adds to it a platform for “family values”, which generally means opposition to abortion and homosexuality. A spin off of the political Jesus is the prosperity Jesus, who not only promotes America, but exists to dispense unlimited health and wealth. This Jesus is a sweet vending machine in the sky, a kindly old Santa. The Jesus Seminar of the 1990s reacted against the views previously mentioned. We all have biases, and one of mine is that research, to be legitimate, must be logical. (I was, after all, raised by two scientists.) The Jesus Seminar started with the assumption that the scriptures and church tradition were both erroneous, then

proceeded with a “cut and paste reduction” of the Gospel narratives of the newer Testament, and emerged with a non-Jewish, non-divine Jesus. Their methods were anything but scientific. From there, we move into entirely fictitious views of Jesus, like Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, which depicts Jesus married to Mary of Magdala, contrary to all historical evidence. Social gospel and liberation theologies traditionally emphasize a prophetic Jesus who stood up for the marginalized and disenfranchised, and against the tyranny and oppression of Rome, thus providing inspiration for us to do the same. Seeking the Identity of Jesus: A Pilgrimage is a collection of essays by members of the Identity of Jesus Project, who, although coming from different traditions and often disagreeing with one another, is based on the very defensible supposition that the scriptures are essentially accurate and ancient tradition and creeds contain fundamental truth. As such, these scholars envision themselves on a journey, a pilgrimage, a journey that, so far, has led to the following conclusions about Jesus. Jesus was throughly Jewish, tied by family and tradition to the entire history of Israel. Any attempt to see him in a non-Jewish light, as the Jesus Seminar did, “must be emphatically rejected”. Jesus is faithfully revealed in scripture, especially the four gospel narratives, which were accepted as authoritative (unlike the Gnostic gospels) by the entire early church. They were not declared to be authoritative by some emperor, but accepted as such by followers of Jesus. Furthermore, all four gospel narratives are accurate and authoritative. We have no logical right to pick and choose between them or cut and paste what we choose from them. Not only that, but the four gospel narratives of the newer Testament cannot themselves be understood outside the context of the Hebrew scriptures from which they sprang. Consequently, “in order to understand the identity of Jesus rightly, the church must constantly engage in the practice of deep, sustained reading of these texts.” By “church” the authors mean the collection of all those faithfully seeking to follow Jesus, not an institution or organization of any kind. The newer Testament reveals Jesus through narrative, the telling of his story, rather than abstract dogmatic propositions, so engaging the narrative is vital. The identity of Jesus can only be learned through extended discipline. The journey of getting to know him better never ends. Similarly, because the trajectory of understanding about Jesus begun in the scripture continues in the ancient creeds and traditions of history, they too must be taken seriously. Tradition cannot be replaced with “more scientific” means of knowing because tradition includes the “great cloud of witnesses” about which the book of Hebrews speaks. Combining biblical text with tradition, gives us to understand... That Jesus is alive, risen from the dead, literally, physically -- a feat not impossible for God, which leads us to see Jesus as living Lord, not just historical figure. Jesus has life-giving power and is at work in the world today. And, that Jesus can be encountered in the community of his people, via prayer, worship, preaching, the sacraments, and in the suffering of the poor. Jesus challenges the privileged and calls us to radical costly service. Far from being a guarantor of the status quo, Jesus shakes us up, confronts our prejudices, and calls us to sacrificial action. ©2008 Lawrence Russell Taylor, PhD. All rights reserved worldwide.