About the Author: Gregory C. Jenks
This book is written from an intentionally progressive Christian perspective. It draws together multiple strands from the author's personal and professional life: critical biblical scholarship, field archaeology, parish ministry, seminary teaching, and personal religious practice.
n this book you will find a profile of what Jesus may have been like within the context of Second Temple Judaism. This is set alongside selected aspects of the Jesus tradition as preserved in the earliest Christian writings. Neither is ascribed primacy over the other, but each casts light on the other and both inform the final part of the book that traces some of the ways in which Jesus communities now might shape their collective and individual lives.
Gregory C. Jenks, Academic Dean of St. Francis Theological College in Brisbane, answers the question "What is progressive Christianity?"
We can usefully consider the problem posed by the Bible for theologians and church leaders under three categories: the world behind the text, the world within the text, and the world in front of the text.
An introduction to the Bible for religious progressives
Gregory C. Jenks latest book, The Once and Future Bible, offers lessons on making the bible relevant for today's progressive believers.
Jack Spong has attempted to rescue the Bible from fundamentalism and Marcus Borg has encouraged us to read the Bible again for the first time. However, the Bible remains a problematic text for religious progressives, including Christians and people from other faith traditions. This presentation will acknowledge the constraints on the capacity of the Bible to function in the post-Christian global era, but also imagine some ways in which the Bible may make a constructive contribution to progressive religious communities in the future.
Introduction: Historical Jesus Studies as a "School of Honesty"In 1906 Albert Schweitzer commented:"The critical study of the life of Jesus has been for
