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There are twenty-seven books in the traditional New Testament, but
the early-Christian community was far more vibrant than that small
number might lead you to think. In fact, many more scriptures were
written and were just as important as the New Testament in shaping
early-Christian communities and beliefs. Over the past century,
many of those texts that were lost have been found and translated,
yet they are rarely read in contemporary churches; they are
discussed mainly by scholars or within a context only of gnostic
gospels. In A New New Testament Hal Taussig seeks to change that.
A new kind of Christianity is emerging at the grass roots. Full of
heart-felt expression, artistic creativity, and liberal social
values, progressive churches and small Christian communities have
established themselves across the denominational spectrum.
Reporting on a national research study that undercuts the
impression that right-wing Christianity is the only new development
on the contemporary American religious landscape, Hal Taussig
identifies thousands of progressive churches and para-churches and
describes five characteristics of this new movement. He then
proceeds to analyze its blind spots, project its future, and
suggest how to start a progressive church
What difference does scholarship on the historical Jesus make for
the way we think about the meaning of Christian faith in the
twenty-first century? In "The Historical Jesus Goes To Church,
biblical scholars--Fellows of the Jesus Seminar--speak directly to
the ways in which new knowledge of the Jesus of history requires
and enables us to think differently about the significance of Jesus
and about the reliability and authority of the Bible. They also
imagine what these new understandings imply for public worship,
preaching, prayer and practice, and life in community. These
articles evoke the spirit of Paul, Christianity's first theologian,
who like us found himself standing at the intersection of two eras
and knew that he had to let go of his past if he hoped to have a
future.
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