Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Seeing ‘Jesus’ From Below #14

[May 1998 journal entry]

Once I began to consider ‘Jesus’ as an ‘outsider’ or ‘guest’ to the ‘religious’ sphere of his day, I began to notice --
  1. the diminished place he assigned ritual and tradition,
  2. how he saw others (especially those dismembered by the ‘religious’ sphere),
  3. the way he was misunderstood and how he was viewed as a threat,
  4. his ‘non-religious’ interpretations of the Jewish Torah and related writings.