IN THIS ISSUE

ARTICLES ON JESUS

Jesus Who Was and Who Is.................Frederick Buechner....Inside 
Perhaps we know Jesus best by what he brings..............Front Cover     

We Would See Jesus.......................Douglas John Hall..........1
Some of our images of Christ do not benefit God's beloved world

What's So Great About Jesus?.............David H.C. Read............6
Christ-centered preaching is an invitation to join a pilgrimage

Who Are You?.............................Barbara Brown Taylor.......8
Jesus claims not equality with God but intimacy

Following the Crucified Jesus............Walter J. Burghardt, S.J..10
By dying with him we follow Jesus

Jesus: The Gesture at the Temple.........Paula Fredriksen..........12
Jesus' symbolic action points to great hope

Hanging Out With Jesus...................Jude Siciliano............14
Jesus definitely hung out with the "wrong" people

Jesus and the Fulfillment of Scripture...Bruce Chilton.............16
Jesus creatively adapted scripture to reflect his experience of God

Some Conclusions From My Historical......John Dominic Crossan......18
Jesus Research
Each generation must rediscover the historical Jesus from its own 
perspective

Why the Historical Jesus?................Stephen J. Patterson......20
Behind Christian history lies the claim that God became flesh

Jesus the Jew and his Religion...........Geza Vermes...............22
Jesus emphasized the inner moral and religious significance of the
Mosaic commandments

Jesus as Liberator.......................Robert McAfee Brown.......24
Jesus empowers and frees us from the evils of destructive social 
structures

The Preciousness of Jesus and the........James Melvin Washington...26
Disinherited
Power and affluence can conspire against the experience of Jesus 
as savior

Jesus: A Man of Another Culture?.........John Macquarrie...........28
Jesus is a universal human being, a person for all time

QUOTATIONS ON JESUS

In the Hebrew Scriptures [30]
In the New Testament Scriptures [32]
By Theologians, Scholars, Writers [34]

BOOKS ON JESUS

The Lectionary: Which Jesus Shall We Preach? By Judith Hoch Wray [36]
God Was In Christ by Donald Baillie [38]
The Way of Jesus Christ by Jurgen Moltmann [13,29]

IDEAS FOR PREACHING ON JESUS

Jesus: The Servant-Son...................Donald Coggan.............39
Acceptance of His Father's Will..........Sr. Gillian Leslie, ODC...40
Jesus and Compassion.....................Marcus J. Borg............42
Jesus Christ in Easter Orthodox..........Stanley Samuel Harkakas...44
Hymnology
More Than Impossible Examples............Martin E. Marty...........46
Jesus Needs Our Witness..................Choan-Seng Song...........47 

 
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