6.8 Crossan (2010)
Crossan, John Dominic (2010) The Greatest Prayer: Rediscovering the Revolutionary Message of the Lord's Prayer. New York: HarperOne.
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Author John Dominic Crossan is professor emeritus at De Paul University. He is widely regarded as the foremost historical Jesus scholar of our time. In the last forty years he has written twenty-five books on the historical Jesus, earliest Christianity, and the historical Paul. Five of them have been national religious bestsellers for a combined total of twenty-four months. The scholarly core of his work is the trilogy from The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant (1991) through The Birth of Christianity: Discovering What Happened in the Years Immediately After the Execution of Jesus (1998), to In Search of Paul: How Jesus’s Apostle Opposed Rome’s Empire with God’s Kingdom, co-authored with the archaeologist Jonathan L. Reed (2004). His work has also been translated into twelve foreign languages, including Korean, Chinese, Japanese and Russian. He is served as President of the Society of Biblical Literature for 2011-2012. I've also reviewed on this site Crossan's Excavating Jesus: Beneath the Stones, Behind the Texts (2001) (see 4.2), God & Empire: Jesus Against Rome, Then and Now (2007) (see 6.3), The Challenge of Jesus (DVD Set and Resource Guide) (2011) (see 4.14), The Power of Parable: How Fiction By Jesus Became Fiction About Jesus (2012) (see 4.12), How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian: Struggling With Divine Violence From Genesis Through Revelation (2015) (see 4.18). |
Many consider John Dominic Crossan to be the premiere historical Jesus scholar of his generation. I consider this book by this postmodern liberal/progressive biblical scholar to be the best guide to the social, political, economic meaning of Jesus' most well known prayer; laity and clergy will never be able to just see it in the conventional way again.
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Many Christians who basically see the Lord's Prayer only in a conventional, devotional sense, will be challenged by
Crossan to experience it in an even more transformative way--as an important means of being empowered to collaborate with God in bringing greater distributive justice for all--the core of the biblical tradition for Crossan.
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Many Christians who basically see the Lord's Prayer only in a conventional, devotional sense, will be challenged by
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