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Jesus' Baptism and Jesus' Healing - His Personal Practice of Spirituality (Paperback)
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Jesus' Baptism and Jesus' Healing - His Personal Practice of Spirituality (Paperback)
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Within the environment of the Judaism of his day, Jesus practiced a
unique understanding of purity grounded in his eschatological
vision of how God was acting to gather his people. But Jesus
practice was not only a matter of getting people to see God in the
same way as he did. He also acted directly to put his own view of
purity into effect, declaring clean what earlier had been
considered unclean. This was already a concern in the ministry of
John the baptizer, and it is apparent now that Jesus too was moved
by the prospect of the purification of all Israel. The politics of
Herod Antipas within Imperial Rome had made John s program appear
seditious, and Jesus needed to be aware of this. In addition, John
had conceived of God as preparing a pure people by means of
immersion, but Jesus saw the people of his Galilee already pure and
ready for the disclosure of a kingdom they could already celebrate.
This is what caused Jesus to stop baptizing people as he had once
done as John s disciple and to begin a dedicated ministry of
healing based on his awareness of the Spirit within him, an
awareness that emerges as a major concern of this book. A final
portion of the book studies how baptism within the earliest church
emerged as a celebration of the Spirit of God. "An innovative
perception of how a rite of purity might be understood when set
over against its manifold historical contexts: religious,
sociological, historical, political, and anthropological." Scot
McKnight, North Park University Bruce Chilton, New Testament and
Judaic scholar, is Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Religion at
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
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