John Dominic Crossan: How to think about Jesus like a Historian

Homebrewed Christianity

Dr. Tripp Fuller | Theologian, Philosopher, Minister

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.6 • 612 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 112 minutes

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John Dominic Crossan returns to the podcast to discuss how a historian thinks about Jesus. You will hear him outline the basic framework he operates from before tackling several different topics and questions sent in by members of the Easter Stories group. In the conversation, we mention some Dom’s books including The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant, Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography, and Resurrecting Easter. John Dominic Crossan is an Irish-American biblical scholar with two-year post-doctoral diplomas in exegesis from Romeâ€™s Pontifical Biblical Institute and in archeology from Jerusalemâ€™s Ã‰cole Biblique. He has been a mendicant friar and a catholic priest, a Co-Chair of the Jesus Seminar, and a President of the Society of Biblical Literature. His focus, whether scholarly or popular, in books, videos, or lectures, is on the historical Jesus as the norm and criterion for the entire Christian Bible. His reconstructed Jesus incarnates nonviolent resistance to the Romanization of his Jewish homeland and future hope of a transformed world and transfigured earth. Crossanâ€™s method is to situate biblical texts within the reconstructed matrix of their own genre and purpose, their own time and place, and to hear them accurately for then before accepting or rejecting them for now. Previous Podcast Episodes with Dom & Tripp the Last Week of Jesus’ Life Jesus, Paul, & Bible Questions Saving the Biblical Christmas Stories the most important discovery for understanding Jesus The Bible, Violence, & Our Future Resurrecting Easter on the First Christmas Â From Jesusâ€™ Parables to Parables of GodÂ Render Unto Caesar on God & Empire This Episode is Sponsored By Christian Theologial Seminary Are you discerning a call to ministry or leadership? Christian Theological Seminary understands you canâ€™t put your life on pause to complete your Master of Divinity degree. Thanks to new remote learning technology and their redesigned MDiv, you no longer have to. Their redesigned MDiv program now offers remote learning options for completing classes without eliminating the traditional in-person classroom experience. With consistent course offerings and individualized degree mapping, students can complete the required credit hours at their own pace with minimal on-site intensive days, creating an equitable experience from anywhere. Theyâ€™re bringing CTS to you and opening access to excellent preparation for ministry and ordination. Learn more at www.CTS.edu Follow the podcast, drop a review, or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh, yeah, what is up theology nerds? This is Tripp, and you're listening to Homebrewed Christianity.
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0:27.4	biggest questions, the task of the faith before you. And uh, yeah, today's our birthday. That's
0:34.1	right. The day this episode released is, is the 15th birthday of the podcast.
0:38.8	I can't believe we've survived 15 years. There was hardly any podcast around when we started,
0:44.7	let alone do podcasts normally make it past, say, 10 episodes, and we made it. We've got 1,500
0:51.5	and some. So, uh, very glad.
0:54.3	Very glad to be here.
0:55.8	Returning to the podcast.
0:57.8	Today is John Dominique Cross and legendary New Testament scholar been a part of the podcast.
1:04.0	He was on a single digit episode, you know, from like 2008.
1:08.3	Well, uh, in this episode, we will tackle how, him, like as a historical Jesus scholar,
1:15.3	how do you think?
1:15.9	How do you even begin to reconstruct and wrestle with the best way to get that historical Jesus?
1:21.2	He gives us a little tour of that process intellectually.
1:25.1	And then we open up and start tackling a host of different questions
1:29.3	people send in from our ongoing series Easter stories. But you'll hear more about that in a second.
1:34.9	Now, before we get into this episode, I want to give a major, major shout out to the homebrewed
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