Imagining Jesus ... in his own culture : creating scenarios of the gospel for contemplative prayer / [print]
Jerome H. Neyrey ; foreword by Douglas E. Oakman.
- Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, (c)2018.
- xiv, 157 pages ; 23 cm
Includes topical and scriptural indexes.
List of cameos for seeing Jesus more clearly in his own culture -- Foreword/ Douglas E. Oakman PART 1: SEEING JESUS MORE CLEARLY, BUT IN HIS OWN CULTURE : -- 1. What? Why? How? -- 2. Jesus, "like us in all things," but in his own culture -- 3. Imaginative scenarios of Jesus : from Nazareth to Jericho -- 4. Shaming an innocent man to death PART 2: HEARING JESUS MORE CLOSELY, BUT IN HIS OWN CULTURE : -- 5. From tomb to throne -- 6. Honor desired, but rejected -- 7. Did Jesus laugh? Did he make others laugh? -- 8. Imagining Jesus at prayer.
Every disciple imagines Jesus; reading the Gospels we form images of him and of his surroundings. This has been constant practice for those who desire to know him more clearly. We, however, borrow stuff ;