By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2023-02-02T02:57:28-05:00February 1st, 2023|Tags: Bible, Book of Acts, Early Church, Paul, Peter|
One of the issues that’s really beginning to affect these communities and the second and third generation is the question of authority. … How do we know that our group is doing things right? An interview with Dr. Perry Kia.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2022-12-10T07:50:28-05:00December 14th, 2022|Tags: Christ, Christmas, Gospel of Luke, Gospel of Matthew, Paul|
If we only celebrated the birth of Jesus from the Gospel of Matthew, we’d have no angel speaking to Mary …. If we only celebrated the birth of Jesus from the Gospel of Luke, we’d have no flight to Egypt.
By Dr. B. Brandon Scott|2022-03-31T18:56:17-04:00April 13th, 2022|Tags: Christ, Greco-Roman, Paul, Psalms, Translation Issues|
The shifts from ‘Messiah,’ to christos, to christus, to ‘Christ’ were momentous. In the process, the root meaning of g-d’s anointed king was forfeited and with that several things were lost.
By Dr. B. Brandon Scott|2022-03-14T18:46:08-04:00March 16th, 2022|Tags: Church, Early Christian Communities, Early Church, Gospel of Matthew, Paul|
In the King James translation of the Hebrew scripture (so-called ‘Old Testament’), the translators consistently employed the gloss ‘assembly,’ while in the New Testament they used ‘church.’
By Dr. Hal Taussig|2022-02-26T01:35:50-05:00February 28th, 2022|Tags: Fundamentalism, New Testament, Paul, Resurrection, Spirituality|
The spiritual, present, collective understanding of resurrection has special longer-term promise for integrity, imagination, community, and new frameworks for divine presence.
By Dr. Hal Taussig|2021-12-23T05:22:18-05:00December 22nd, 2021|Tags: Bible, Early Christian Communities, Early Jesus Followers, Jesus, Paul|
The book challenges the general public, many churches, and most scholars to re-consider how to think about Jesus and these hundreds of years before there were ‘Christians.’
By Dr. Hal Taussig|2021-01-21T02:26:09-05:00January 21st, 2021|Tags: Extracanonical Texts, Gospel of Peter, Paul, Resurrection|
"A number of scholars suggest that the Gospel of Peter’s story may have been one of the earliest if not the earliest. It is time to take this possibility seriously."
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2021-01-06T22:36:53-05:00January 7th, 2021|Tags: Bible, Christian Canon, Judaism, Paul, Theology|
"I might say [Paul]’s working out a theology. Maybe in all of the letters. Trying to explain… what it is to be in Christ, or in the body of Christ." An Interview with Dr. Nina Livesey
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2020-11-17T17:30:04-05:00November 5th, 2020|Tags: 1 Timothy, Egalitarianism, Gender Issues, Paul, Women|
"I really believe the Holy Spirit fosters equality. You know the Holy Spirit is the great Energizer, but also the great Equalizer." An interview with Margaret Mowczko.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2022-07-18T06:48:14-04:00August 24th, 2020|Tags: Acts of Paul and Thecla, Jesus, Paul|
The earliest version of The Acts of Paul and Thecla explicitly picture her as never having submitted to a Roman death. This study will also continue with these themes, but we will also look substantially into the very experimental role she played in challenging traditional family values. Presenter: Dr. Hal Taussig (with host Shirley Paulson, PhD)
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2020-08-06T04:37:55-04:00August 6th, 2020|Tags: Early Christian Communities, Elli Elliott, New Testament, Paul|
"It’s interesting to read (Paul’s) letter to Philemon and imagine yourself hearing it as Onesimus. We do not often imagine life from the viewpoint of the slaves in the ancient world. " An interview with Elli Elliott, PhD.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2022-07-18T06:14:18-04:00June 1st, 2020|Tags: New Testament, Paul|
The creative metaphors for life in Jesus Christ in the Letter to the Hebrews are some of the most imaginative to come out of the first two centuries. But Hebrews has been mostly ignored by official Christendom. Presenter: Dr. Hal Taussig (with host Shirley Paulson, PhD)
