I'm back for part three of the series great. part one and two, who would have thought, is found directly underneath ...
yesterday we have been thinking about how the gospel in the person of Jesus in this world communicates and found that it is limited to the possibilities that are all humans have. However, we are still very still at large. so today is about the practical art of communication and the opportunities that are available to him Jesus also really exhausting, and in particular what not!
so it is now about what the main part of post andis accounts: the discourse of power. This part necessarily has a very strong narrative and less argumentative character. because this is not about the conceptual foundations of the communication of the Gospel, but whose actual realization, as we see the description of the life of Jesus in the Gospels.
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the statement of the last episode, was that the reaction, which can expect the Gospel is none other than the one can expect any human utterance: the other, they listen to, understand and accept as their own conviction and in best align its fall act on it. there are opportunities in this world, these processes, we say, encouraged. and makes it through the exercise of power.
which can contain much: know rhetorically sophisticated talk, supported by a head start on. to use communication medium, such as in our time of access to mass media. always plays into it also makes financial. the ability to determine the contents of education. political power that certain opinions punishable by law, or other supports from the state. emotional power that the binding of other people using a self to certain utterances to emphasize. and of course physical violence. this list could be extended in length, as does has myriad faces of and is omnipresent. we are all implicated in numerous aspects in them.
the incarnate gospel, Jesus, could take all these possibilities in challenging without the incarnation, the revelation in the circumstances of creation, so that demolition would be done. but he does not do it! he does not own this, of divine supervision, limited options, which give emphasis to his message. Jesus takes no part in the discourse of power, he does not share it. he is from the beginning and unto the end of his life in a position that he not participate in the discourse allows.
already the beginning of his life with this train in itself. already his conviction, which appears to us as a miraculous process impossible, to him in the eyes of his contemporaries, ever take a senior position in society: he is an illegitimate child, yes, it is even unclear who his father is, he could be a bastard . to marry as Joseph and Mary, the bride already pregnant.
also the place of his birth, the place is by Christmas, at which the incarnation is done pretty much the lowest, what one can imagine for a baby: in a crib in a stall, a sense of the word in every place of crappy. Nobody wants to be born on such a site or give birth to God and it is this place looks off to come into this world. Jesus is proclaimed as the king of angels and the baby gets it, that would even feel the lumpen proletariat as not tolerable.
work in his, he also refrained from any exercise of human power. first of Political Life makes. seems to us quite naturally, but was so clear, because on the floor of the promise of the Messiah in the Old Testament - for example Isa 11.1-5 - many expected a Messiah, the King of Israel as another and especially the Romans would become independent. So a political ruler. like Jesus distanced very clear when he says, for example the Jn 18:36 : My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would fight, so that I would not be delivered to the Jews: but now my kingdom is not of this world.
but there are also promises in the Old Testament that show much more accurately what the man Jesus really was: He shot in front of him as a tender plant and as a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty and majesty. We saw him, but there was no beauty that we should desire him. 3 He was despised and Allerverachtetste, full of pain and illness. He was so despised that it hid our faces from him, and we did not esteem Him. Isa 52.2-3 exactly so was Jesus as human: miserable. and respect is just a manifestation of the discourse makes the. also renounced Jesus.
he refused to talk to rhetorical ground, the man had carried away and argument could convince. He did not try again to convince, but said, deliberately in riddles and parables. he says it in Mk 4.10-12 : And when he was alone, asked him who were about him with the twelve, according to the parables. 11 And he said unto them, Unto you it is the secret of the kingdom of God given, but where it all happens out there in parables, 12 so they can see it with open eyes and not perceive, and listen with hearing ears and still not understand, so they repent not, and will forgive them. a clear disregard by the intellectual or rhetorical power of human exercise.
and finally he is a failed human being. which for us means the redemption, the death on the cross, was historically considered a regrettable failure. a rebel who has not yet done it, the riot at all to start the first dies, the most miserable and most undignified death which could have imagined that time. naked and bleeding, he was tortured on the cross. and the first known caricature in the same breath even ridiculed, the INRI sign. is he Mt 27.42 asked in mocking his intentions to flex, so he refuses again to the last.
there are still many incidents from the Gospels to show that Jesus never had the opportunities which he had commanded among the people, has used, but always and consistently humbled, humiliated and - like Andy said - was meager.
a story but there are who could be brought against this interpretation of the life of Jesus in position, and should prevail since honesty, I will not hide: the cleansing of the temple in Mt 21.12 to 13. Here you actually see the application of power, namely physical violence, through Jesus. added. However, it is the making of a crazy, slammed by the rampage in the temple. and use of power, which remained completely ineffective and inefficient. or does anyone seriously believe that the non-dealer the next morning all of them back to their original circumstances were?
so much material in a concise form in this part. tomorrow we approach the consequences that all this has for us, who live under the conditions of the postmodern. namely, if we ask how the Gospel, the Logos, in the proclamation of the community and thus our incarnated. and as the incarnate Logos in Jesus, of which he is never to separate, can match. I hope you will keep still and stay tuned!
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