Behold, My Mother and My Brethren!
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Behold, My Mother and My Brethren!

The Beginning of the Gospel and Becoming a Christian in (Post) Christendom: Volume I—Mark 1:1 to 4:41

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Behold, My Mother and My Brethren!

The Beginning of the Gospel and Becoming a Christian in (Post) Christendom: Volume I—Mark 1:1 to 4:41

About this book

In this Kierkegaardian reading of Mark's Gospel two of the most creative and passionate witnesses of Christ's gospel are brought together to mutually inform its superlative wonder. Both writers winsomely revealed the nature of human existence in sin, and the new life Jesus lived and made possible for all, as the paradoxical "God-man." They highlighted "the single individual" against the frenzied crowd "in untruth"--driven by despair whether conscious or unconscious--and vulnerable to enticing publicity and deceptive propaganda. The entrenched societal systems unjustly determined for time and eternity who God favored or disfavored. In dramatic contrast, Mark and Kierkegaard both elucidated God's "good news" calling forth the highest and "happy passion" of faith capable of creating a new family unconstrained by the status quo of the established order's old wineskin. In short, through the gospel they powerfully challenged "the system, " whether modern "Christendom" or its first-century equivalent and did so by "merely" following Jesus "out over 70, 000 fathoms, " weathering demonic storms and overcoming dehumanizing societal bureaucracies set against them and humanity at large. This Kierkegaardian reading of Mark reveals two kindred spirits, after Christ's spirit, demonstrating the redemptive love of God for all humanity, centered in Christ.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Series Preface
  3. Abbreviations
  4. Introduction to Volume 1
  5. Chapter 1: “The Beginning” of Mark’s Sacred History and Kierkegaard’s “Mirror” of Existence-Communication
  6. Chapter 2: Two Voices Crying in the Wilderness . . . of Despair
  7. Chapter 3: God’s Earnestness
  8. Chapter 4: Temptation as Our Problem and Christ as Our Prototype
  9. Chapter 5: “The Moment” in the Fullness of Time
  10. Chapter 6: The Call to Contemporaneity with Jesus through the Middle Term of Death and the Dynamic of “Spirit”
  11. Chapter 7: “The First Day” in the Sacred History of the Contradiction
  12. Chapter 8: Concluding Preface to “The First Day”
  13. Chapter 9: Mark’s Leper and A Leper’s Self-Contemplation
  14. Chapter 10: “Your Sins are Forgiven!”
  15. Chapter 11: Jesus and Kierkegaard on Gaining the World
  16. Chapter 12: “Thy Disciples Fast Not?”
  17. Chapter 13: The Sabbath Dialectic
  18. Chapter 14: Truth, Boredom, and Crushing Publicity
  19. Chapter 15: Plundering the “Goods” of the Strong Man
  20. Chapter 16: The Sower of Human Freedom, Responsibility, and Fruitfulness, and “The Parable of the Sower in Christendom”
  21. Chapter 17: “If Anyone Has Ears to Hear . . . for Disciples the Road is How”
  22. Chapter 18: The “Fine Species” of Seed that Sows Purity of Heart
  23. Chapter 19: The Lowly Mustard-Plant Growing in “The Present Age” . . . of Loftiness
  24. Chapter 20: The Situation for Coming to Faith
  25. Epilogue
  26. Conclusion to Volume 1
  27. Bibliography