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Did Jesus, the Jew, simply ignore the faith of his own religious tradition and expound a new and different way of atonement? Or did Christianity, independent of Jesus, develop the logic of atonement by the blood of Jesus as substitutionary satisfaction to God for the offense of all human sins?
What does Jesus ask of the people whom you and I see walking and talking with him on the top of the mountain of Transfiguration? Are we listening more to the voice of Jesus or more to the others? Has Jesus been transfigured yet for us?
This chapter appears in a book titled Where The Spirit is There is Freedom published by CANEC, United Church of Canada, 1985. Dean Salter Ed.
Dr. Newman presents this chapter of the book titled Aging and Dying: Legal, Scientific and Religious Challenges (Harold Coward, Ed.)
Dr. Newman reviews the book titled The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant, by John Dominic Crossan (Harper, 1991).
Dr. Newman published this article in The Christian Century magazine in January 1991.
Published in the Journal of Ecumenical Studies, 28:1, Winter 1991.
Published in the Scottish Journal of Theology. Vol. 34, pp. 415-426
The Front Page of the July 1991 United Church Observer magazine
The time has come for a paradigm shift in Christian theology. Evidence of the need for some basic changes in our tradition has been growing along with the knowledge explosion that characterizes the twentieth century. The explosion of knowledge has ignited the imaginations and curiosity of Christian scholars to look with fresh eyes at every aspect of Christian tradition and thought. The result is that countless new insights have emerged, some with profound implications for the very framework in which Christian faith is understood. While there has been a lot of joy in the creative liberty of discovering new aspects of our tradition there has also been tension in realizing the unresolved conflicts between the new discoveries and what the church has held for many centuries to be orthodox theology.
This book endeavours to explain a Christian view of
humanity and Spirit as part of a dialogue among all those of good will who care about the destiny of the world and its people and who are open to the possibility that the Spirit of God is what makes hope for the world realistic.
The explanation of human hope given here is not intended primarily for the experts in philosophy or theology. Dr. Newman has tried to avoid using the technical jargon of theology and to cast the discussions in terms that do not require a specialized education in order to grasp the meaning.