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Last Name
NELSON- PALLMEYER
First Name
Jack
Title
Jesus against Christianity: Reclaiming the Missing Jesus
Publisher
Trinity Press International
Year
2001
Group
PRO10
Comments
(amillenial)

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Contents:

  • God, Judaism, and justice
  • Diverse and contradictory images of God
  • Can this really be God?
pt. 1. Land thievery, genocide, and other tales
pt. 2. The exodus is not a story of liberation
pt. 3. troubling images of God from the New Testament
  • The many gods of the monotheism: why the Bible is often wrong about God
  • Messy monotheism: False portraits of God and scripture
  • From liberation to exile
  • Undermining the sanity of God
  • Powerful problems
  • Jesus: Jewish and human
  • The success of failure
  • Murder and method
  • Jewish expectations, opportunists, and Roman power
  • My three sons, Pilate, and Messianic pretenders
  • Religious complicity
  • Subversive healing, competing Torahs, and the power to exclude
  • The many faces of violence
  • Violence, toll collectors, and tenants
  • No Messiah: apocalypse never
  • Images of abundance and love of enemies
  • Reassessing God's power
  • Abundant life, invitational judgment, and God's nonviolent power
  • Taking Jesus seriously.