Jesus and the Religions

Retrieving a Neglected Example for a Multi-cultural World

Robinson

• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN: 9781621893714
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

How should followers of Christ live in a multi-religious world? This book argues that the example of Jesus has something fresh and helpful to say to those who ponder the question. It takes something old--the example of Jesus--to say something new to our pluralist world. Most of the book examines the meetings of Jesus with Gentiles and Samaritans. These are found in some of the most poignant and dramatic encounters and teaching passages in the Gospels: a synagogue address with near-murderous consequences; the healing of a pagan centurion's servant; the setting free of the afflicted child of a Gentile mother; a moving encounter at a Samaritan well; the unlikely story of a compassionate Samaritan--and more. This is a scholarly but accessible discussion of what it might mean to have the same attitude of mind that Christ Jesus had in our contemporary multi-religious world.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Judaism and Gentiles: Jesus, Galilee, and Gospels
• Chapter 2: Some Key Encounters with Gentiles
• Chapter 3: Elsewhere in the Gospels: Purity, Temple, Parables
• Chapter 4: Samaritans and Jesus
• Chapter 5: Some Implications for the Encounter with Islam
• Chapter 6: Some Conclusions about Jesus, Gentiles, and Samaritans
• Bibliography