Tag: Luke 4
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The Active Life – 6. “Jesus in the Desert”: The Temptations of Action. Parker Palmer
Continuing our series on Parker Palmer's The Active Life: A Spirituality of Work, Creativity, and Caring, we look at Chapter 6, "' Jesus in the Desert': The Temptations of Action." The story in this chapter is the temptation of Jesus in the desert as given in Luke 4:1-15, (Jerusalem Bible, modified by Palmer with inclusive…
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Luke’s Origin
How did books like the gospels come to be? Luke actually gives us considerable information about how he composed his gospel. In Interpreting the Bible, Kenneth Bailey invites us to look at the opening verses of Luke. Bailey abstracts four key points from these verses and places them in a timeline. Here is the passage…
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Household: Jesus’ Mission Statement
How did Jesus perceive his mission? The gospel of Luke tells in sequence of Jesus being baptized, going into the wilderness to be tested, and then reading from the scrolls during worship at Nazareth. Scholars believe the event at Nazareth actually happened later in Jesus' ministry. So why does Luke locate it at the beginning?…
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Theology and Economics: The New (Jeru)shalom
When Jesus arrived on the scene, the Jews were looking for a messiah to gather all the Jews to Israel, overthrow the oppressors, and restore shalom. Exactly how this would happen and when was a much-contested issue. Still, these three elements were prominent within most Jewish eschatology. The gospel of Luke takes the story of…
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The Economic Catalyst
For the past few days, I have written about economic justice as we find it in the Bible (Distributive, Commutative, and Remedial.) As we look at the world at Israel's birth, we see cultures full of economic oppression. Slavery was widespread. Poor people were of little consequence. Court justice was skewed toward those with power.…