The primary mission of the church is to take the world back from the thugs…
Of everything John Dominic Crossan said in his lectures on Jesus and Paul, I think that’s the sentence that most stands out to me, the sentence that maybe best distinguishes who Jesus is as savior from who Caesar is as savior: “The primary mision of the church is to take the world back from the thugs…”
Finally, I’ve posted on Vimeo the finished version of Crossan’s appearance at the Earlham School of Religion, on April 16th and 17th:
Jesus & Paul: John Dominic Crossan at the Earlham School of Religion on Vimeo.
The interesting problem–interesting because I didn’t really know it was a problem till I tried this–is that the pictures of the event weren’t really an illustration of the ideas. Can theology be expressed by images? Yea, that’s gotta be possible–but not theology in history.
Of course, the other interesting question is why the experience of watching the same video on Vimeo and on YouTube is so entirely different…
