Podcasts about divine violence

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In this heart-wrenching show, we discuss Aaron Bushnell's self-immolation or as Chris Hedges characterizes it, his divine violence. We use several clips to explain better and characterize his sacrifice, including Caitlyn Johnstone and Ann Wright. We also discuss mainstream media's predictable failure in reporting on Aaron. We hear from veterans during vigils and tributes remembering and honoring Aaron. We finish up with Al Jazeera's take on Biden's food drop. Joe Cocker sings our tribute to Aaron.

Sam, John, and Ron begin a new series this week in response to numerous listener requests. It is time to talk about Christian participation in violence. Is violence ever justified for a Christian? What about self-defense? We can agree that unprovoked killing is bad, but what about a killing resulting from self-preservation or retaliation? Join the guys as they trace the theme of God's people and their relation to violence through the Bible. Related Episodes.  3.18 - Violence of the "Conquest" 3.28 - God's Wrath Revealed 3.29 - God's Wrath Revealed - Part Two 1.30 - Telling the Story: Raising Cain

A sordid story of “divinely-sanctioned” violence in the Old Testament … which seems to be anything but that. There are many stories in the Old Testament of carnage and slaughter, perpetrated by the nation of Israel, which are presented as divinely-sanctioned. In fact, the claim is that God / YHWH not only condoned them, but […]

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Given the violence in the Old Testament, many wrongly believe the God of the Old Testament is different than the God of Jesus Christ. The truth is that God always fights against evil, just in different ways throughout salvation history. 

Given the violence in the Old Testament, many wrongly believe the God of the Old Testament is different than the God of Jesus Christ. The truth is that God always fights against evil, just in different ways throughout salvation history. 

Messianic Apologetics editor John McKee offers thoughts on the issue of Divine violence, after reading the book Confronting Old Testament Controversies by Tremper Longman III.

Genesis 6:5-22; 8:6-12; 9:8-17; Matthew 8:24-27 God said to Noah: “I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.” This week's reading and sermon from Epiphany Lutheran Church.

This week I am featuring Eric A. Seibert, Ph.D., Professor of Old Testament at Messiah University. Tom Oord introduced him as the world's foremost authority on divine violence in the Bible. I heard this lecture at the 2022 Open and Relational Conference at the Grand Targhee Resort adjacent to the Grand Tetons. Seibert's insights take an honest look at how many verses portray God as violent and offers a sensible approach to dealing with them. Such violent portrayals of embolden some people toward violence, and simultaneously serve to repel others from considering the faith. This lecture will provide a key that will help us see the violent passages for what they are and help us move forward in the loving Way of Jesus that he derived from his Abba.

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Guest Info/Bio: Guest Bio: This week I welcome back John Dominic Crossan! Dr. Crossan is one of the preeminent New Testament scholars and historian of early Christianity. He is known for his contemporary historical Jesus research and he has written both popular and academic books on an array of topics. Dr. Crossan received his Doctor of Divinity at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, the Irish national seminary and completed two additional years of study in biblical languages at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. He completed two additional years of study in archeology at the Ecole Biblique in Jordanian East Jerusalem. He served as co-chair of the Jesus Seminar and also served as president of the Chicago Society of Biblical Research from 1978-1979, and as president of the Society of Biblical Literature in 2012. (Selected) Published Works: The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant; Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography; Who Killed Jesus? Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus; In Search of Paul: How Jesus's Apostle Opposed Rome's Empire with God's Kingdom; God and Empire: Jesus Against Rome, Then and Now; The First Paul: Reclaiming the Radical Visionary Behind the Church's Conservative Icon; The Power of Parable: How Fiction by Jesus became fiction about Jesus; How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian: Struggling with Divine Violence from Genesis Through Revelation; and Resurrecting Easter: How the West Lost and the East Kept the Original Easter Vision. Guest Website/Social Media: www.johndominiccrossan.com Facebook: @johndominiccrossan Theme Music by: Forrest Clay “This Water I am Treading & You Must Go” found on the brand new EP, Recover.You can find Forrest Clay's music on iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube, or anywhere good music is found!This episode of the Deconstructionists Podcast was edited, mixed, and produced by John Williamson Stay on top of all of the latest at www.thedeconstructionists.com Go there to check out our blog, snag a t-shirt, or follow us on social mediaJoin our Patreon family here: www.patreon.com/deconstructionists Website by Ryan BattlesAll photos by Jared HevronLogos designed by Joseph Ernst & Stephen PfluigT-shirt designs by Joseph Ernst, Chad Flannigan, Colin Rigsby, and Jason Turner. Starting your own podcast? Try Riverside! https://riverside.fm/?utm_campaign=campaign_1&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=rewardful&via=john-williamsonSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-deconstructionists/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The fourth episode in a 12-part series “Black, White, and Red All Over: A Podcast Series about the Bible.” ------------------------ Episode Summary/For Further ExplorationJohn, Ellyn, and Tiffany are joined by special guest Ethan McVay as they review what they took away from the Bible books Numbers, Deuteronomy, and Joshua. They also wrestle with one of the most controversial things in the Bible, and attempt to answer the question, “What Do We Do with All the Violence in the Bible?” They also answer listener questions!  Intro and Fun Banter - 0:00 Tiffany's thoughts on the violence in the Bible - 10:10 Ellyn's thoughts on the violence in the Bible - 13:23 Ethan's thoughts on the violence in the Bible - 15:40 John's thoughts on the violence in the Bible - 18:18 Tiffany's additional insights on Numbers, Deuteronomy, & Joshua - 27:50 Ellyn's additional insights on Numbers, Deuteronomy, & Joshua - 31:10 Ethan's additional insights on Numbers, Deuteronomy, & Joshua - 34:22 A funny moment in Bible - 40:27 Listener Questions - 43:00 Final Thoughts - 45:42 Join them in reading through the Bible this year! Find resources to help get you started below. *If you have thoughts or questions, we'd love to talk with you! Email your questions to youngadults@fbchav.org or john@fbchsv.org* ------------------------ Links to Items to Help You Further Explore How to Process the Violence in the Bible https://bibleproject.com/bible-studies/reflections/making-sense-of-divine-violence/ (Bible Project: Making Sense of Divine Violence) https://bibleproject.com/blog/judgement-cruelty-conquering-promised-land/ (Bible Project: Judgment or Cruelty? Conquering the Promised Land) https://bibleproject.com/blog/why-did-god-command-the-invasion-of-canaan-in-the-book-of-joshua/ (Bible Project: Why Did God Command the Invasion of Canaan in the Book of Joshua?) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merneptah_Stele#%22Israel%22 (Ancient Example: Egyptian tablet claiming the destruction of Israel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesha_Stele#Original (Ancient Example: Moabite tablet describing their defeat of Israel and killing Israelite men, women, and children in devotion to the Moabite god) https://seedbed.com/violence-in-the-old-testament-starting-points/ (Seedbed: 7 Keys to Understanding Old Testament Violence) ------------------------ Resources & References for After You Listenhttps://my.bible.com/reading-plans/17553-the-bible-recap-with-tara-leigh-cobble#:~:text=%E2%86%90Plans-,Share,-The%20Bible%20Recap (The Bible Recap Reading Plan on the Bible App) https://www.thebiblerecap.com/start (Bible Recap Resources to help get you started in reading through the Bible) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R9HzW7B3jBBAi_NmMnateGeqoYleTVf5/view (The Bible Recap Links) https://bibleproject.com/ (The Bible Project) https://announce.bibleproject.com/?_ga=2.225246429.615507031.1642525114-1608109579.1642525114 (The Bible Project App) Check out All our Other Episodes on our Podcast & Keep an Eye Out for Episode 5 of Season 3 on or around May 1st! ------------------------ Special Thanks to Ellyn Christian and Patrick Chester! Visit us online at https://my.captivate.fm/www.fbchsv.org/youngadults (www.fbchsv.org/youngadults) and check out our sermons and services at https://my.captivate.fm/www.fbchsv.org/sermons (www.fbchsv.org/sermons), and watch our 30min TV Program https://tvchurch.online/ (tvchurch.online)

In this episode we welcome Dr. Ashley Bohrer to discuss Walter Benjamin's 1921 essay “Critique of Violence”. We talk about the relationship between violence and the law, reflect on the limits of institutional power for emancipatory projects, and get really real about the spiritual dimension of justice. Keep your messianism weak, comrades.patreon.com/leftofphilosophy | @leftofphilashleybohrer.comPedagogies for Peace podcast: https://kroc.nd.edu/research/intersectionality/pedagogies-for-peace-podcast/References:Walter Benjamin, “Critique of Violence,” trans. Edmund Jephcott, in Selected Writings Volume I: 1913-1926, eds. Marcus Bullock and Michael W. Jennings (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996).Music: Vintage Memories by Schematist | schematist.bandcamp.com

…among the lampstands was someone like a son of man… In his right hand he held seven stars, and coming out of his mouth was a sharp, double-edged sword.  (Bits of Revelation 1:13, 16) “…See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals.” Then I saw a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain, standing at the center of the throne… (Revelation 5:5-6)   Is God violent?  That's a pretty complex question for a short devotional, but here goes.  We talked a bit about warfare yesterday, but now I'd like to jump up into the book of Revelation and look at the violence and warfare found there.  The answer to this above question has implications for how we as Christians interact with our culture today as we seek to “follow Jesus” in his ways.  Are his ways violent ways that pour out wrath on enemies?  If so, then maybe we're justified when we force our ways and opinions and cruel or condescending comments and actions on others.  But if Jesus really is the Prince of Peace, then perhaps Christian superiority or self-righteousness is ill-founded.  We've been going through the book of Revelation in our Sunday worship services as “the Last Word” on the faith, so that's a good place to go with this question.  Especially because the book of Revelation is absolutely filled with violent imagery and language.  But if you notice: none of the violence is actual.  None of it is literal violence against the world or it's people.  It's a vision—imagery—expressed in apocalyptic language and metaphors borrowed by John from Scripture, history, and tradition. Further, though the violence John pictures is pictured as the judgement of God and of the Lamb, we have to look really carefully at how John pictures God and the Lamb.  And when we do, we discover that John subverts the pictures.  Things are not quite how they seem. Yes, Jesus has a sword.  But not a real sword.  It's a sword that comes out of his mouth.  It's what he speaks, the Word of God, that—in the words of Hebrews—penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, judging the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. And John is furthermore told about the Lion of Judah, but when he looks, instead of seeing a powerful, violent predator, John sees a little lamb looking like it had been slain.  John saw not the perpetrator of violence, but the recipient.  The conqueror who conquered by being conquered.  This is Jesus on the cross.  The lamb that was slain, but who now sits on the throne.  I think John would like us to see and believe that Jesus put violence to death in his cross: not through an act of divine violence, but through humble submission to humanity's violence.  That is the Revelation of Jesus Christ in the book of Revelation.  

The Nu Class Sunday School presents "A Day With A Theologian" from their annual theology weekend. The event was held in our Contemporary Worship Center on September 11, 2021 _____________________________________________________ John Dominic Crossan, Bible scholar and author How Can We Christians Choose to Follow Jesus, The Prince of Peace, in a Chaotic World? The theme for Crossan's remarks is Divine Violence in the Christian Bible. The morning lecture, from the Old Testament, is on Sanction Theology or Sabbath Theology. The afternoon lecture, from the New Testament, is on Peace through Victory or Peace through Justice. There are two competing visions within the Christian Bible of the Jewish God of Creation, developed side by side from Genesis to Revelation: violent or nonviolent. Jesus chose one model to follow. The basis for the theme and lectures is Crossan's book, How to Read the Bible and Still be a Christian. It is readily available from numerous sources and in new and used versions. John Dominic Crossan, an Irish-American former Catholic priest and retired university professor, is an acclaimed Bible scholar and author. He is a major New Testament researcher, and historian of early Christianity and of culture of the Ancient Mediterranean and New Testament worlds. He is a past president of the Society of Biblical Literature. Want to see more from First Church, visit our website at www.firstchurchorlando.org

The Nu Class Sunday School presents "A Day With A Theologian" from their annual theology weekend. The event was held in our Contemporary Worship Center on September 11, 2021 _____________________________________________________ John Dominic Crossan, Bible scholar and author How Can We Christians Choose to Follow Jesus, The Prince of Peace, in a Chaotic World? The theme for Crossan's remarks is Divine Violence in the Christian Bible. The morning lecture, from the Old Testament, is on Sanction Theology or Sabbath Theology. The afternoon lecture, from the New Testament, is on Peace through Victory or Peace through Justice. There are two competing visions within the Christian Bible of the Jewish God of Creation, developed side by side from Genesis to Revelation: violent or nonviolent. Jesus chose one model to follow. The basis for the theme and lectures is Crossan's book, How to Read the Bible and Still be a Christian. It is readily available from numerous sources and in new and used versions. John Dominic Crossan, an Irish-American former Catholic priest and retired university professor, is an acclaimed Bible scholar and author. He is a major New Testament researcher, and historian of early Christianity and of culture of the Ancient Mediterranean and New Testament worlds. He is a past president of the Society of Biblical Literature. Want to see more from First Church, visit our website at www.firstchurchorlando.org

In this episode we discuss the problem of divine violence. How does ontology and metaphysics change the way we engage everyday life? Recommended Lecture by Peter Leithart:https://youtu.be/8BQ_b7cd1Is 

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Continuing our conversation from Sunday's teaching, let's look at some of the ways that people have attempted to deal with divine violence in the Bible.

Does God participate in or encourage violence? There have been many different views in the Church on this subject throughout history and there is still a great divide over the subject today. Joshua and TJ will go over the Biblical arguments on the topic of pacifism, we will hear different perspectives from the Whole Church think tank (consisting of Church leaders from all different walks and denominations), and we will consider the history of arguments over "just war" doctrines. . Check out the rest of our "Dividing Scriptures" series by clicking the link below: https://player.captivate.fm/collection/e4633d53-48a7-4966-9c63-bf8243a2e3a2 (https://player.captivate.fm/collection/e4633d53-48a7-4966-9c63-bf8243a2e3a2) . Sign up for our newsletter: thewholechurch@gmail.com . Follow us on Social: facebook.com/thewholechurchpodcast Twitter @thewholechurch Instagram @wholechurchpodcast . Make a one-time donation: Cashapp $wholechurch . Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/thewholechurchpodcast . Subscribe to our show: https://the-whole-church-podcast.captivate.fm/listen (https://the-whole-church-podcast.captivate.fm/listen) . Rate us & leave a review: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-whole-church-podcast-104837 (https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-whole-church-podcast-104837)

There’s a lot of violence in the Old Testament, but isn’t God loving? How do we make sense of all this? In this episode, we are exploring a few key things to keep in mind while looking at the topic of violence in the Bible.Note to parents: The terms genocide, child sacrifice, sexual fertility rituals, and sex slavery are used in this episode. Before listening with your child, consider if they are ready to be introduced to these concepts and if you are prepared to carefully answer any follow-up questions they may have. Bible Reading:Joshua 1:1-9Reflection Questions:How do you see violence at work in your community?Consider God’s character of justice, mercy, and love. How does he want to restore your community?What is one step you can take this week to join God’s justice, mercy, and sacrificial love?Want to Go Deeper? Check out this episode's complete Bible study to access a video and explore more detailed questions for personal study and group discussion. You can also review this blog on the BibleProject website, “Why Did God Command the Invasion of Canaan in the Book of Joshua” by Andy Patton.Show Credits:Host: Cheree HayesMessage: Dr. Tim MackieProduction and Bible Reading: Dan GummelTheme music: Grant William HaroldBackground Music: "Tides" by Some Were At SeaPowered and distributed by Simplecast.

The Old Testament can be tricky to navigate. But thankfully, biblical scholar and author Tremper Longman III has dedicated his life to helping people better understand it. We discuss principles of interpretation, the problem of divine violence, and the Apocrapha.    Timestamps Introducing Tremper Longman III (:54) Principles for Interpreting the Old Testament (OT) (8:45) Divine Violence in the OT (16:31) Other OT Controversies (37:45)   Dr. Tremper Longman III (B.A. Ohio Wesleyan University; M.Div. Westminster Theological Seminary; M.Phil. and Ph.D. Yale University) is the Distinguished Scholar of Biblical Studies at Westmont College. He has written over 30 books including commentaries on Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Daniel, and Nahum. His most recent book (with the psychologist Dan Allender) is God Loves Sex: An Honest Conversation about Sexual Desire and Holiness. His books have been translated into seventeen different languages. In addition, as a Hebrew scholar, he is one of the main translators of the popular New Living Translation of the Bible and has served as a consultant on other popular translations of the Bible including the Message, the New Century Version, the Holman Standard Bible, and the Common Bible. He has also edited and contributed to a number of Study Bibles and Bible Dictionaries, most recently the Baker Illustrated Bible Dictionary (2013). Connect with Tremper at: tremperlongman.com   Music Credit: LAKEY INSPIRED Track Name: "The Process" Music By: LAKEY INSPIRED Official SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired Official YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOmy8wuTpC95lefU5d1dt2Q License for commercial use: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported "Share Alike" (CC BY-SA 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode Music promoted by: Chill Out Records @ https://goo.gl/fh3rEJ www.ChillOutMedia.com / www.LoFi-HipHop.com    

Jon Simons discusses his article "Divine Violence, Profane Peace: Walter Benjamin, Rabbis for Human Rights, and Peace in Israel–Palestine" from Telos 192 (Fall 2020).

We discuss the idea of divine violence and if it still occurs today.

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Join us at Matt finishes his two part Crash Course on Divine Violence!

Here's the first part of Matt's Crash Course that he led on Zoom. Make sure you tune in to Part 2, this Tuesday (8/4) at 6PM!

In this show from Season 1 we are honored to have a world renown scholar who participated in the Jesus Seminar in the 1990’s. His books include Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography and The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant. During our show John Dominic Crossan explains his view of the historical Jesus and elaborates on his reconstruction of the historical figure. In his research he portrays Jesus as a hellenized Jewish cynic philosopher, he also discussed Jesus Jewish heritage, his social teachings as well as his revolutionary tactics against the Roman empire.Along with Marcus Borg, John Dominic Crossan has co-authored a series of books: The Last Week: A Day by Day Account of Jesus’s Final Week in Jerusalem (2006); The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Teach about the Birth of Jesus (2007); and The First Paul: Reclaiming the Radical Visionary Behind the Church’s Conservative Icon(2009).His most recent book is How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian: Struggling with Divine Violence from Genesis through Revelation (HarperOne, 2015).

This week Dr. Eric Seibert joins the conversation to discuss divine violence. It's no secret that one can find some troubling images of God in the Old Testament. It is also no secret that the Old Testament has a troubling legacy to many. So... Did God really command the complete genocide of men, women, children and animals in the Old Testament?  For 2,000 years Bible Scholars and Theologians have wrestled with the violent images of God and the seeming sharp contrast between those images and the image of God we find in Jesus. Seibert joins the conversation and helps us to think through the various ways people have talked about the issue of divine violence. Enjoy!   RESOURCES:  Disturbing Divine Behavior: Troubling Old Testament Images of God (book)  The Violence of Scripture: Overcoming the Old Testament's Troubling Legacy (book) 

Rethinking Hell contributor Chris Date interviews Dr. Tremper Longman III, in whose recent book on Old Testament controversies says some Bible interpreters are motivated to reject divine sanction of violence in Scripture by their desire to believe in annihilationism. Tremper Longman's recent book, Confronting Old Testament Controversies

Buckle up friends, we have a special episode for you this week. Two Northern professors, Greg Boyd and Claude Mariottini debate how to interpret the violence in the Old Testament. Fitch guides the conversation through a few Old Testament passages as Boyd and Mariottini discuss how to make sense of violent portrayals of God in the Old Testament in light of Jesus' crucifixion.

Did God really command the complete slaughter of everyone living in the Promised Land (men, women and children)? Would a loving God ever allow Israelite soldiers to take on additional wives as war widows (if they found them attractive and if they proved themselves to be sexually pleasing)? For 2,000 years, Christian thinkers and Biblical scholars have wrestled with difficult Old Testament passages that seem to show a violent and unloving God, one that seems to contrast sharply with other descriptions of God in the OT. Dr. Eric Seibert joins Dan to talk through this landscape of passages and problems, and to explain 14 distinct approaches that Christians have taken in dealing with them. Later, Dan answers a listener question: “What do you think of the whole #emptythepews movement?” (1:42:00) Eric’s book (The Violence of Scripture): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0800698258/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i1 Nuclear Taboo article: https://news.stanford.edu/2017/08/08/americans-weigh-nuclear-war/ Edited by Scott Cangemi Join the Patreon for bonus episodes (and more) every month: patreon.com/dankoch YHP Patron-only FB group: https://tinyurl.com/ycvbbf98 Website: youhavepermissionpod.com Join Dan's email list: dankochwords.com Artwork by http://sprungle.co/

Episode 9: The final episode in our 3-part series on violence in scripture. In this episode we discuss how certain depictions of God in the Christian tradition seem somewhat paradoxical. On the one hand, God is loving and merciful and forgiving, and yet on the other hand, certain texts in the bible give us the idea that God takes violence into their own hands. Whether it be to command the people of God to obliterate their enemies (including their children) or to directly carry out this violence by the divine hand; divine acts of violent justice wherein the evil are swept away by a flood, drowned in a river, swallowed up by a sudden giant chasm in the ground... So what do we do with this? Because if we just find ways to put this aside - while simultaneously believing it as many Christians are trained to do - then although the everyday God we believe in is good, the God that hovers over our shoulder is the one who is capable of genocide. This paradox can lie hidden for years, but it ultimately manifests itself in our real world anxieties, behaviours, ethics and spirituality.

Guest Bio: This week we have the great honor of speaking with the legendary John Dominic Crossan! Dr. Crossan is one of the preeminent New Testament scholars and historian of early Christianity. He is known for his contemporary historical Jesus research and he has written both popular and academic books on an array of topics. Dr. Crossan received his Doctor of Divinity at St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, the Irish national seminary and completed two additional years of study in biblical languages at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. He completed two additional years of study in archeology at the Ecole Biblique in Jordanian East Jerusalem. He served as co-chair of the Jesus Seminar and also served as president of the Chicago Society of Biblical Research from 1978-1979, and as president of the Society of Biblical Literature in 2012. (Selected) Published Works: The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant; Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography; Who Killed Jesus? Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus; In Search of Paul: How Jesus’s Apostle Opposed Rome’s Empire with God’s Kingdom; God and Empire: Jesus Against Rome, Then and Now; The First Paul: Reclaiming the Radical Visionary Behind the Church’s Conservative Icon; The Power of Parable: How Fiction by Jesus became fiction about Jesus; How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian: Struggling with Divine Violence from Genesis Through Revelation; and Resurrecting Easter: How the West Lost and the East Kept the Original Easter Vision. Guest Website/Social Media: www.johndominiccrossan.com Facebook: @johndominiccrossan Special Guest Music Provide by: Findlay Brown twitter: @findlaybrown Facebook: @findlaybrown instagram: @findlaybrownofficial Enjoy the songs? Songs featured on this episode were: “All is Love, Born of the Stars, & Mountain Falls for the Sea” from the album, Slow Light. “Home & When the Lights Go Out” from the forthcoming album, Not Everything Beautiful is Good (Available May 18, 2018). Findlay Brown’s music is available on: iTunes, Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, SoundCloud, and anywhere good music is found! DECONSTRUCTIONISTS LIVE!!! We have a live event in Denver on April the 28th! Grab your tickets here: www.thedeconstructionists.com/events/ or at www.eventbright.com (search deconstructionists podcast live) Donate/Patreon: Check out our website www.thedeconstructionists.com to become part of our Patreon family, listen to all of our past episodes, subscribe for future episodes, connect with us on social media, read our blog, or get your hands on one of our many cool t-shirts or pint glasses! Website designed by @ryanbattles The Deconstructionists Podcast is produced by Nicholas Rowe at National Audio Preservation Society: A full service recording studio and creative habitat, located in Heath, Ohio. Find them on Facebook and Twitter or visit their website for more information. www.nationalaudiopreservationsociety.weebly.com www.facebook.com/nationalaudiopreservationsociety Twitter: @napsrecording Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-deconstructionists/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

John Shuck begins a five-part series on Revisioning Christianity. How did Christianity triumph? Was it a hoax? Is it unbelievable? Does it yet have a message to inspire peace and justice?  My five guests include Bart Ehrman, author of the newly released, The Triumph of Christianity: How A Forbidden Religion Swept the World, John Shelby Spong, author of the newly released, Unbelievable: Why Neither Ancient Creeds Nor the Reformation Can Produce a Living Faith Today, David Skrbina, author of the newly released, The Jesus Hoax: How St. Paul's Cabal Fooled the World for Two Thousand Years, Angela Yarber, creator of the Holy Women Icons Project, and starting us off, John Dominic Crossan, who with his wife, Sarah Sexton Crossan have just released Resurrecting Easter: How the West Lost and the East Kept the Original Easter Vision. Professor John Dominic Crossan is regarded as the foremost historical Jesus scholar of our time. He is the author of 30 or so books including his hugely influential, The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant. This is the third time Professor Crossan has been on Progressive Spirit. Previously on this show we discussed his books, The Power of Parable: How Fiction by Jesus became fiction about Jesus, and How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian: Struggling with Divine Violence from Genesis Through Revelation. In this episode, we discuss how the vision of Easter as depicted in the Eastern iconography of Anastasis "rising up" symbolizes non-violent resistance to empire.Re

On this episode of The Bible for Normal People, Pete Enns—without any adult supervision whatsoever—gives his own take on divine violence, specificially: the Flood story, the curses in Deuteronomy 28, and, of course, the one every one wants to talk about, God's command to the Israelites to wipe the Canaanites off the face of the earth and take their land. And a good time was had by all.

The week’s guest is pastor and author Greg Boyd, and our topic is how the crucifixion of Jesus helps us see divine violence in the Old Testament from a fresh angle.

“Our bible reveals to us the character of our God with minute and remorseless exactitude. The portrait is substantially that of a man — if one can imagine a man charged and overcharged with evil impulses far beyond the human limit; a personage whom no one would desire to associate with, now that Nero and Caligula are dead. In the Old Testament His acts expose His vindictive, unjust, ungenerous, pitiless, and thousand-fold severity; punishing innocent children for the misdeeds of their parents; punishing unoffending populations for the misdeeds of their rulers; even descending to wreak bloody vengeance upon harmless calves and lambs and sheep and bullocks, as punishment for inconsequential trespasses committed by their proprietors. It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere; it makes Nero an angel of light and leading, by contrast.”(Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume II, page 128 Dictated June, 19, 1906). In Dr. Crossan most recent book, How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian: Struggling with Divine Violence from Genesis through Revelation, tackles Twain’s and other people’s misunderstanding of the Bible. The premise of Dr. Crossan’s book involves an honest assessment of these sacred texts and how not only metaphor is used in scripture to express theological truths but a dialectical conflict between peaceful and violent concepts. We also discuss the many biblical passages that appear to support the oppression of women, slavery and xenophobia, which can be explained in relation to the overall theme of peace and non-violence expressed by the prophets. Dr. Crossan defines non-violence as resistance to evil something Jewish and Christian authors communicated in their writings and has inspired multiple peaceful movements throughout history.

In this week’s show we are honored to have a world renown scholar who participated in the Jesus Seminar in the 1990’s. His books include Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography and The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant. During our show John Dominic Crossan explains his view of the historical Jesus and elaborates on his reconstruction of the historical figure. In his research he portrays Jesus as a hellenized Jewish cynic philosopher, he also discussed Jesus Jewish heritage, his social teachings as well as his revolutionary tactics against the Roman empire. Along with Marcus Borg, John Dominic Crossan has co-authored a series of books: The Last Week: A Day by Day Account of Jesus’s Final Week in Jerusalem (2006); The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Teach about the Birth of Jesus (2007); and The First Paul: Reclaiming the Radical Visionary Behind the Church’s Conservative Icon(2009). His most recent book is How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian: Struggling with Divine Violence from Genesis through Revelation (HarperOne, 2015).

Dr. Peter Enns shares reflections from his book, The Bible Tells Me So… Q&A at the end of the message.

People living in the modern west generally have no problem criticizing religiously-justified violence. It’s therefore always interesting when I discuss John Brown, a man who legitimized anti-slavery violence Biblically. My most recent batch of students sought to resolve this tension by declaring John Brown to be “crazy but right.” In his new book Weird John Brown: Divine Violence and the Limits of Ethics (Stanford University Press, 2014), Ted A. Smith unravels the tensions that led to my students’ ambiguous conclusion. By providing a profound ethical meditation on Brown and his fellow raiders to challenge how people, particularly Americans, think about morality; the relationship between religion, the state, and violence; and to the possibilities of judgment and redemption, Smith illustrates how an ethical and philosophical reading of history can help us to better understand the world we live in, what we should do, and of the importance of going beyond just what we ought to do. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People living in the modern west generally have no problem criticizing religiously-justified violence. It’s therefore always interesting when I discuss John Brown, a man who legitimized anti-slavery violence Biblically. My most recent batch of students sought to resolve this tension by declaring John Brown to be “crazy but right.” In his new book Weird John Brown: Divine Violence and the Limits of Ethics (Stanford University Press, 2014), Ted A. Smith unravels the tensions that led to my students’ ambiguous conclusion. By providing a profound ethical meditation on Brown and his fellow raiders to challenge how people, particularly Americans, think about morality; the relationship between religion, the state, and violence; and to the possibilities of judgment and redemption, Smith illustrates how an ethical and philosophical reading of history can help us to better understand the world we live in, what we should do, and of the importance of going beyond just what we ought to do. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People living in the modern west generally have no problem criticizing religiously-justified violence. It’s therefore always interesting when I discuss John Brown, a man who legitimized anti-slavery violence Biblically. My most recent batch of students sought to resolve this tension by declaring John Brown to be “crazy but right.” In his new book Weird John Brown: Divine Violence and the Limits of Ethics (Stanford University Press, 2014), Ted A. Smith unravels the tensions that led to my students’ ambiguous conclusion. By providing a profound ethical meditation on Brown and his fellow raiders to challenge how people, particularly Americans, think about morality; the relationship between religion, the state, and violence; and to the possibilities of judgment and redemption, Smith illustrates how an ethical and philosophical reading of history can help us to better understand the world we live in, what we should do, and of the importance of going beyond just what we ought to do. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People living in the modern west generally have no problem criticizing religiously-justified violence. It’s therefore always interesting when I discuss John Brown, a man who legitimized anti-slavery violence Biblically. My most recent batch of students sought to resolve this tension by declaring John Brown to be “crazy but right.” In his new book Weird John Brown: Divine Violence and the Limits of Ethics (Stanford University Press, 2014), Ted A. Smith unravels the tensions that led to my students’ ambiguous conclusion. By providing a profound ethical meditation on Brown and his fellow raiders to challenge how people, particularly Americans, think about morality; the relationship between religion, the state, and violence; and to the possibilities of judgment and redemption, Smith illustrates how an ethical and philosophical reading of history can help us to better understand the world we live in, what we should do, and of the importance of going beyond just what we ought to do. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People living in the modern west generally have no problem criticizing religiously-justified violence. It’s therefore always interesting when I discuss John Brown, a man who legitimized anti-slavery violence Biblically. My most recent batch of students sought to resolve this tension by declaring John Brown to be “crazy but right.” In his new book Weird John Brown: Divine Violence and the Limits of Ethics (Stanford University Press, 2014), Ted A. Smith unravels the tensions that led to my students’ ambiguous conclusion. By providing a profound ethical meditation on Brown and his fellow raiders to challenge how people, particularly Americans, think about morality; the relationship between religion, the state, and violence; and to the possibilities of judgment and redemption, Smith illustrates how an ethical and philosophical reading of history can help us to better understand the world we live in, what we should do, and of the importance of going beyond just what we ought to do. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People living in the modern west generally have no problem criticizing religiously-justified violence. It's therefore always interesting when I discuss John Brown, a man who legitimized anti-slavery violence Biblically. My most recent batch of students sought to resolve this tension by declaring John Brown to be “crazy but right.” In his new book Weird John Brown: Divine Violence and the Limits of Ethics (Stanford University Press, 2014), Ted A. Smith unravels the tensions that led to my students' ambiguous conclusion. By providing a profound ethical meditation on Brown and his fellow raiders to challenge how people, particularly Americans, think about morality; the relationship between religion, the state, and violence; and to the possibilities of judgment and redemption, Smith illustrates how an ethical and philosophical reading of history can help us to better understand the world we live in, what we should do, and of the importance of going beyond just what we ought to do. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

This week New Testament scholar, historian and author John Dominic Crossan returns to the podcast to talk about his latest book, How to Read the Bible and Still be a Christian: Struggling with Divine Violence from Genesis through Revelation.

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A strategic provocateur, Daniel J. Martinez deploys the full range of available media in his practice, having used at various times text, image, sculpture, video, and performance to construct his uniquely tough-minded brand of aesthetic inquiry. Using forms of strategic engagement and illusion, Martinez employs mutation and schizophrenia as a form of confusion directed toward the precondition of the coexistence of politics as radical beauty. Ongoing themes in the work are contamination, history, nomadic power, cultural resistance, dissentience and systems of symbolic exchange. Martinez is currently exhibiting work in the Orange County Museum of Art, Disorderly Conduct, and El Museo Del Barrio. His latest piece, Divine Violence, was recently installed in the 2008 Whitney Biennial. And he was awarded the United States Artists fellowship in 2008. He is a Professor of Theory, Practice, and Mediation of Contemporary Art at the University of California Irvine, where he teaches in the Graduate Studies Program and New Genres Department. An ongoing project is the building of a doomsday machine, a transporter and a time machine to change the past in order to affect the future. February 12, 2009