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Jesus' Compassion and Politics: A Paradigm Shift from Purity to Compassion - Prof. Stephen, Study notes of World Religions

Jesus' teachings on compassion as an alternative to the dominant socio-political paradigm of purity in his jewish world. It discusses how jesus challenged the purity system through his healings, relationships, and discipleship, proposing a politics of compassion that unites and includes rather than divides and excludes.

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2010/2011

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JESUS COMPASSION &
POLITICS
KEY WORDS: “BE COMPASSIONATE AS
GOD IS COMPASSIONATE”
JESUS’ WORDS SPEAK OF A WAY OF
LIFE GROUNDED IN AN IMITATION OF
GOD.
IN THESE WORDS, WHAT GOD IS LIKE
AND HOW WE ARE TO LIVE ARE
BROUGHT TOGETHER.
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JESUS COMPASSION &

POLITICS

 KEY WORDS: “BE COMPASSIONATE AS GOD IS COMPASSIONATE”  JESUS’ WORDS SPEAK OF A WAY OF LIFE GROUNDED IN AN IMITATION OF GOD.  IN THESE WORDS, WHAT GOD IS LIKE AND HOW WE ARE TO LIVE ARE BROUGHT TOGETHER.

CONTINUED

 COMPASSION IS TO FEEL AS GOD FEELS AND TO ACT AS GOD ACTS: IN A LIFE GIVING AND NOURISHING WAY.  COMPASSION IS TO BE THE CENTRAL QUALITY OF A LIFE FAITHFUL TO GOD THE COMPASSIONATE ONE.

SOCIAL WORLD AND

POLITICS

 JESUS’ COMPASSION AS THE IMITATION OF GOD WAS NOT THE DOMINANT IMITATION OF HIS JEWISH WORLD.  A DIFFERENT IMITATION OF GOD DOMINANTED: “BE HOLY AS GOD IS HOLY” CENTERED IN HOLINESS.

CONTINUED

 COMPASSION FOR JESUS WAS POLITICAL.  JESUS DIRECTLY AND REPEATEDLY CHALLENGED THE DOMINANT SOCIOPOLITICAL PARADIGM OF HIS SOCIAL WORLD AND ADVOCATED A POLITICS OF COMPASSION.  NEED TO SEE THE ROLE OF PURITY.

THE PURITY SYSTEM

 A WORLD WITH SHARP SOCIAL BOUNDERIES: BETWEEN PURE & IMPURE, RIGHTEOUS AND SINNER, WHOLE & NOT WHOLE, MALE & FEMALE, RICH & POOR, JEW & GENTILE.

CENTER OF PURITY SYSTEM

 AT THE CENTER: TEMPLE & PRIESTHOOD.  THEY HAD RELIGIOUS & ECONOMIC INTEREST IN THE PURITY SYSTEM: TITHING  IDEOLOGY OF THE DOMINATE ELITES.

JESUS & THE PURITY SYSTEM

 HIS HEALINGS SHATTER THE PURITY BOUNDARIES OF HIS SOCIAL WORLD  HIS OPEN AND INCLUSIVE TABLE  HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH WOMEN  DISCIPLESHIP OF EQUALS  PURITY DIVIDES & EXCLUDES, COMPASSION UNITES & INCLUDES