Reclaiming Jesus Making sense of the man without the miracles
by Breckenridge-Jackson, IanFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2011-03-16
Publisher(s): Christian Alternative
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Summary
The figure of Jesus many people have today is perfectly unreal half man half god unsmiling apparently in love with death. Can we do better than this sad caricature? Reclaiming Jesus digs through the evidence and comes up with a few surprises and reveals a Jesus most of us haven't met before. We notice his mischievous style with people and his love of the comic and the contradictory. We see him as a youth in the desert struggling to contain his tumult of ideas. We wonder about an unspoken grief in early years. Later in the book discover how he turns traditional ideas inside out seeing human nature within a wholly new reality. We examine what others made of him and trace the story forward to where we are today. Finally we wonder what this extraordinary teaching about a source of strength within us can tell us as our species faces up to the daunting challenges of our own time.
Author Biography
Ian Breckenridge has been a Christian, agnostic, Buddhist and is now a Quaker. He is in love with our beautiful, startling universe, and seeks a robust, energising faith for tomorrow.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Introduction: The Point about Jesus | p. 1 |
| Reasons for Reopening the File | p. 3 |
| Writing this Book | p. 5 |
| A Glance through the Book | p. 9 |
| A Quest for an Authentic Jesus | p. 11 |
| Something's Not Right | p. 13 |
| Contradictory Images | p. 13 |
| A Confusing Legacy | p. 16 |
| Hindsight and the Appeal to Authority | p. 18 |
| Taking our Bearings | p. 19 |
| Setting Out on the Quest | p. 21 |
| Did He Really Exist? | p. 21 |
| Sifting the Evidence | p. 25 |
| Cultural Distance | p. 32 |
| A Figure comes into Focus | p. 37 |
| Logic in the Evidence | p. 37 |
| The Sound of Laughte | p. 40 |
| The Woman who Caressed His Feet | p. 43 |
| Reader Beware! | p. 45 |
| A New Inner Landscape | p. 47 |
| The Mind of a Storyteller | p. 49 |
| Teaching and Saving | p. 49 |
| Seeing the World from the Inside Out | p. 51 |
| The Wellspring: Abba | p. 56 |
| Laying New Foundations | p. 59 |
| The Desert Experience | p. 59 |
| The Limits of Magic | p. 61 |
| The Danger of Materialism | p. 63 |
| Politics and the Human Conundrum | p. 67 |
| The Kingdom Deep Within | p. 71 |
| Speaking to the Heart | p. 71 |
| The Gangster | p. 75 |
| Logic in the Unconscious | p. 76 |
| Love Transfigured | p. 79 |
| Love and Violence | p. 79 |
| Seeing Beyond the Conundrum | p. 80 |
| The Heart's Desire | p. 82 |
| Dying and Living | p. 85 |
| All Things Pass Away | p. 85 |
| Appetite and Loss | p. 87 |
| Healing the Human Condition | p. 89 |
| Diagnosing the Heart | p. 93 |
| The Dynamics of Human Imperfection | p. 93 |
| Judgment Day! | p. 96 |
| A New Courage | p. 98 |
| Homage | p. 101 |
| This Timeless Kingdom | p. 101 |
| The Logic of Hyperbole | p. 102 |
| The Achievement | p. 104 |
| This is the Man | p. 109 |
| The Passion Narratives | p. 111 |
| What Happened? And What Did it Mean? | p. 112 |
| Chasing the Enigma | p. 116 |
| The Logic of Parting | p. 127 |
| Breaking the Prison Bars | p. 129 |
| Christianity | p. 133 |
| What Others Made of Him | p. 135 |
| A Birth of Hope | p. 135 |
| Jewish Roots | p. 139 |
| A New Faith for Pagans | p. 142 |
| Ironies of Time | p. 147 |
| The Roman Imperium | p. 147 |
| The Legacy of the Dark Ages | p. 152 |
| The Assault of Modernity | p. 157 |
| The Loss of the Intellectual High Ground | p. 157 |
| Consequences | p. 163 |
| New Light on God | p. 165 |
| Abba and the Gods of Today | p. 165 |
| Ego and its Antidote | p. 168 |
| Faith in Exile | p. 173 |
| Clinging to the Wreckage | p. 173 |
| The Wholeness of the Creation | p. 176 |
| When All is Said and Done | p. 181 |
| Fault Lines and Fundamentals | p. 181 |
| Choices and Responses | p. 185 |
| Agenda: Reclaiming Ourselves | p. 189 |
| The Logic of Complexity | p. 189 |
| Adult and Child | p. 192 |
| Agenda: Reclaiming the Future | p. 197 |
| History through a Telescope | p. 198 |
| A Fork in the Road | p. 198 |
| A New Heaven and a New Earth | p. 203 |
| Homo Sapiens | p. 204 |
| The Man who Cracked the Human Code | p. 209 |
| Appendix: The Logic of Trinity | p. 217 |
| Everywhere We Look | p. 217 |
| A Christian Trinity Emerges | p. 219 |
| Trinity and Us | p. 223 |
| Notes | p. 227 |
| Sources | p. 233 |
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