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The Beloved Son as Tantalizing Teacher


The Beloved Son as Tantalizing Teacher

Jesus Encounters His World

von: Carl E. Roemer

CHF 38.00

Verlag: Wipf And Stock Publishers
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 23.08.2021
ISBN/EAN: 9781725295544
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 316

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The Beloved Son as Tantalizing Teacher is a contribution to the study of the "historical Jesus." It is meant for anyone interested in Jesus as a person as well as part of the academic project of discovering his humanity and his place in history. To truly uncover him in this way, the facts of his Jewish historical context are foundational. The context is in terms of six dynamics or factors: the history of late antiquity of the Mediterranean world from Alexander to the destruction of the temple and how people in the land of Israel interacted with that history; Israel's economic, social, religious, and political structures; and the ecology of the land of Jesus' time. In particular we understand Jesus and the movement he initiated as part of other renewal movements of his time and place that arose to confront what most of his contemporaries perceived as the corrosion of Jewish society. So the Jewish people of the first century, living in their patrimonial land of Israel, were embroiled in a crisis that threatened to overwhelm the nation. The Beloved Son as Tantalizing Teacher sums up the situation, with the pithy phrase borrowed from one scholar, as a people whose "backs were against the wall."
Carl E. Roemer is a freelance scholar who received his ThD from the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago. He served churches in Michigan and New York and was director of pastoral care in the Greater Binghamton Health Center. He was an adjunct professor at the State University of New York in the Judaic Studies Program, where he taught a course called “Jesus in Context” from which this book and its two predecessors developed.
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“Roemer’s detailed and erudite scholarship .&#xa0;.&#xa0;. is incredibly helpful to us in understanding how those who are oppressed in any age and in myriad circumstances internalize such oppression until it has the capacity to boil over into revolution. And then bearing witness to the words and deeds of Jesus, Roemer points us to a still more excellent way, the way of God’s love that takes the sweet shape of mercy and sets us free. .&#xa0;.&#xa0;. I recommend Roemer’s work to every serious student of the Bible, lay or ordained, for it has the capacity to teach the one who reads it how to truly read the Bible, so that they too will receive mercy anew and live for the praise and glory of God.”
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<br> —Amy C. Schifrin, President emeritus, North American Lutheran Seminary
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<br> “Carl Roemer has a passion to understand Jesus of Nazareth within the historical, economic, social, and religious contexts of late antiquity. His perspective is helpful for anyone who wants to avoid a mere sentimental view of
<i> </i>the ‘Beloved Son.’ Roemer’s years of study are shared with readers, allowing them to visit and interact with Jesus’ contemporaries. Both scholars and Bible students will benefit from an immersion that allows both a broad review as well as new and poignant insights.”
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<br> —David Zersen, President emeritus, Concordia University Texas
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<br> “In his study
<i>, </i>Carl Roemer explores in detail the social, political, economic, and religious contexts surrounding Jesus of Nazareth. Roemer’s main focus is clearly the person and meaning of Jesus himself. While some of Roemer’s words may take the reader by surprise .&#xa0;.&#xa0;.&#xa0;, his statements continually invite the reader to go deeper, not only into the message of Jesus, but into the very person of Jesus—the ‘Beloved Son,’ the one who not only embodied God’s kingdom but also amazingly invites the contemporary reader into that same gracious rule. I gratefully recommend his book.”
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<br> —Gerald A. Miller, Pastor emeritus, Annapolis Evangelical Lutheran Church
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