Abstract
“The picture of Jesus as a charismatic or ‘holy man’ vividly in touch with what the texts call ‘Spirit’ radically challenges the flattened sense of reality pervading the modern worldview and much of the mainline church. … Similarly, the picture of Jesus as a subversive sage undermining his culture's conventional assumptions, as a prophet calling it to change its historical direction, and as a revitalization movement founder seeking to create an alternative culture, all point to a deep involvement in the life of history.”
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