As we prepare this Lenten season, let us walk through whatever wilderness we travel, knowing that Jesus walks with us, sure ...
If all we had were the gospels, if that were all we knew about this moment in the development of Christianity as a religion, we might think that the attribution of apocalyptic hope to Jesus came ...
Who is responsible for the birth of Christianity? As with any major phenomenon, the answer is complex. Christianity developed ...
One is that this is Jesus' symbolic overturning of the Temple itself, the rejection of the Temple, that is to say the rejection of Judaism... in favor of a new religion that he's about to introduce.
The attempt to project contemporary politics or our own aspirations onto such a sacred figure is always problematic.