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Jun 16, 2024
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College Bulletin 2014-2015 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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RELG 027. Radical Jesus
This class is a discussion-intensive, student-led exercise in the critical study of Jesus that centers on analytical reading and writing; contemplative practice; and community action. Beginning with the joyous and terrifying Gospel of Mark and the recently discovered Gospel of Judas, and continuing with the rise of Constantine, Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses, and Dostoevsky’s “The Grand Inquisitor,” this class theologically analyzes Jesus today as the mystic-prophet revolutionary who, alternately, is “the first and last Christian” (Friedrich Nietzsche), “the preacher of Christian atheism” (Dietrich Bonhoeffer), “the face of divine affliction” (Simone Weil), “my great brother” (Martin Buber), “the advocate for the disinherited” (Howard Thurman), “the God within each of us” (Thich Nhat Hanh), “the prophet of simplicity” (Shane Claiborne), and “the liberating Corn Mother” (George Tinker).
Eligible for INTP credit.
1 credit.
Not offered 2014-2015.
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