John Dominic Crossan: 19 books
The John Dominic Crossan Essential Set
Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography, The Birth of Christianity, The Power of Parable, and The Greatest Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
The eBook collection of four complete works by bestselling author and leading historical Jesus scholar John Dominic Crossan, including Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography, The Birth of Christianity, The Power of Parable, and The Greatest Prayer.
God and Empire
Jesus Against Rome, Then and Now
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
At the heart of the Bible is a moral and ethical call to fight unjust superpowers, whether they are Babylon, Rome, or even America.
From the divine punishment and promise found in Genesis through the revolutionary messages of Jesus and Paul, John Dominic Crossan reveals what the Bible has to...
The Historical Jesus
The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
"He comes as yet unknown into a hamlet of Lower Galilee. He is watched by the cold, hard eyes of peasants living long enough at a subsistence level to know exactly where the line is drawn between poverty and destitution. He looks like a beggar yet his eyes lack the proper cringe, his voice the...
The 10 Best Books to Read for Easter: Selections to Inspire, Educate, & Provoke
Excerpts from new and classic titles by bestselling authors in the field, with an Introduction by James Martin, SJ.
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
With an Introduction by New York Times bestselling author James Martin, SJ, HarperOne presents The 10 Best Books to Read for Easter. This free sampler is a curated volume of excerpts from new and classic titles from leading authors in the field, including C. S. Lewis, N. T. Wright, Desmond Tutu, Ann...
The Last Week
What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Final Days in Jerusalem
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Top Jesus scholars Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan join together to reveal a radical and little-known Jesus. As both authors reacted to and responded to questions about Mel Gibson's blockbuster The Passion of the Christ, they discovered that many Christians are unclear on the details of events...
The First Paul
Reclaiming the Radical Visionary Behind the Church’s Conservative Icon
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
“Borg and Crossan reveal a figure who, besides being neither anti-Semitic, anti-sex, nor misogynist, stresses social and political equality among Christians and between them and others. A refreshing and heartening exculpation of a still routinely maligned figure of the first importance to culture...
Who Killed Jesus?
Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
The death of Jesus is one of the most hotly debated questions in Christianity today. In his massive and highly publicized The Death of the Messiah, Raymond Brown -- while clearly rejecting anti-Semitism -- never questions the essential historicity of the passion stories. Yet it is these stories, in...
La Ultima Semana
Un Relato Diario de la Ultima Semana de Jesus en Jerusalen
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Los destacados especialistas en Jesús, Marcus J. Borg y John Dominic Crossan, se unen para revelarnos un Jesús radicalmente nuevo y poco conocido. Cuando ambos autores reaccionaron y respondieron preguntas sobre el exitoso filme de Mel Gibson, La Pasión de Jesucristo, descubrieron que muchos cristianos...
The Power of Parable
How Fiction by Jesus Became Fiction about Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
In 1969, I was teaching at two seminaries inthe Chicago area. One of my courses wason the parables by Jesus and the other wason the resurrection stories about Jesus. I hadobserved that the parabolic stories by Jesusseemed remarkably similar to the resurrectionstories about Jesus. Were the latter intended...
How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian
Struggling with Divine Violence from Genesis Through Revelation
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
The acclaimed Bible scholar and author of The Historical Jesus and God & Empire—“the greatest New Testament scholar of our generation” (John Shelby Spong) —grapples with Scripture’s two conflicting visions of Jesus and God, one of a loving God, and one of a vengeful God, and explains...
Resurrecting Easter
How the West Lost and the East Kept the Original Easter Vision
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
In this four-color illustrated journey that is part travelogue and part theological investigation, bestselling author and acclaimed Bible scholar John Dominic Crossan and his wife Sarah painstakingly travel throughout the ancient Eastern church, documenting through text and image a completely different...
The First Christmas
What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Birth
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
“Who could argue with the message the authors draw from the Bible’s Christmas stories? Light in the darkest time of the year, hope in a period of creeping despair—these are powerful and universal themes that can give everyone a stake in Christmas.”
—USA Today
In The First...
The Birth of Christianity
Discovering What Happened In the Years Immediately After the Execution of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
In this national bestseller, John Dominic Crossan, the world's leading expert on the historical Jesus, reveals how Christianity emerged in the period following Jesus' death. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Crossan shines new light on the theological and cultural contexts from which the Christian...
In Search of Paul
How Jesus' Apostle Opposed Rome's Empire with God's Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
John Dominic Crossan, the eminent historical Jesus scholar, and Jonathan L. Reed, an expert in biblical archaeology, reveal through archaeology and textual scholarship that Paul, like Jesus, focused on championing the Kingdom of God––a realm of justice and equality––against the dominant, worldly...
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