Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/15/2025
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
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REVISED
APRIL 13, 2025
THE MONDAY SCRIPTURE STUDY COMMUNITY
THE INTERFAITH PEACE PROJECT
The Beloved Scripture Program
We appeal to the Ancient Authors and Writings to explore the diversity that typifies the Jesus Movements of the first three Centuries. We are most interested in the literature the various communities produced. Perhaps the diversity of the beginnings and their intense creativity will encourage us in our time to live in peace with the rich diversity that so characterizes our world.
JESUS AFTER JESUS
THE RISE OF THE JESUS MOVEMENTS BEFORE CHRISTIANITY
Eighteen Sessions on ZOOM
Mondays 10:30 am (PT)
May 26, 2025
The Jesus of History / The Christ of Faith
Various Perspectives
June 2, 2025
The Possible Reconstruction of the Galilee of Jesus
A Survey Based on the Work of R. Alan Culpepper
June 9, 2025
Is the Cross Essential to Jesus?
Insights from the “Q” Gospel
June 23, 2025
The Crisis of the Death of Jesus
A Re-reading and Exploration of Mark 8: 34
June 30, 2025
Key Dates for the Jesus Movements 33 CE – 135 CE
Exploring the Historical Context of the Earliest Writings
July 7, 2025
The Extent and Meaning of Roman Domination
A Survey of Jesus’ Teachings Confronting Roman Domination (Synoptic)
July 14, 2025
John the Baptizer Revisited
Jesus as Follower of the Baptizer
July 21, 2025
The Historical Death of Jesus
Treason against the Roman State
August 11, 2025
Is the Resurrection of Jesus Historical?
Follow the Women
August 18, 2025
Analysis of the “Q” Gospel
Insights from Gospel Thomas
August 25, 2025
Analysis of Paul
Baptism and Anticipation of the Return of Jesus
September 15, 2025
Analysis of the New Testament
Savior, Lord, and Risen
September 22, 2025
Analysis of the “Gnostic” Literature
Wisdom Teacher and Redeemer
September 29, 2025
Marcion, Didache, and the New Testament
A Survey of the Writings
October 6, 2025
The New Testament in the Roman Literary Context
Re-reading the Gospel of Mark
October 20, 2025
The Great Catechetical Schools
Alexandria and Antioch
October 27, 2025
The Eve of the Council of Nicea 325 CE
The Rise of Christianity
November 3, 2025
Preview of the Society of Biblical Literature
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… Christianity after the destruction of Jerusalem was almost exclusively a gentile religion; it needed a gentile theology. And that is precisely what Paul provided. The choice between James’s vision of a Jewish religion anchored in the Law of Moses and derived from a Jewish nationalist who fought against Rome, and Paul’s vision of a Roman religion that divorced itself from Jewish provincialism and required nothing for salvation save belief in Christ, was not a difficult one for the second and third generations of Jesus’s followers to make. Two thousand years later, the Christ of Paul’s creation has utterly subsumed the Jesus of history. The memory of the revolutionary zealot who walked across Galilee gathering an army of disciples with the goal of establishing the Kingdom of God on earth, the magnetic preacher who defied the authority of the Temple priesthood in Jerusalem, the radical Jewish nationalist who challenged the Roman occupation and lost, has been almost completely lost to history. That is a shame. Because the one thing any comprehensive study of the historical Jesus should hopefully reveal is that Jesus of Nazareth— Jesus the man—is every bit as compelling, charismatic, and praiseworthy as Jesus the Christ. He is, in short, someone worth believing in.
Aslan, Reza (2013-07-16). Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
(Kindle Locations 3349-3358). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
Thomas P. Bonacci, C.P.
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