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 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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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