Pre-modern or Contemporary?

[T]he God experience in Jesus must be understood in the light of the knowledge available to each new generation. The Pope’s call in his book Jesus of Nazareth [2007] is to look at a pre-modern Jesus . . . the way the Church has always presented him. My call in my book Jesus for the Non-Religious [2007] is to look at Jesus through the lens of our contemporary knowledge. . . . Jesus is bigger and far more profound than . . . [___________ fill in the blank]. ~J.S. Spong, weekly column, 2/13/08, via Dick Kroeger

Spirit is always fully present. We do not need a “high priest” (Luther) or a “broker” (Bultmann). ~jpc

Religious or non-religious, I can follow spirit as did Jesus or Siddhartha or Muhammad. Namaste.

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