By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2025-03-26T01:29:44-04:00March 26th, 2025|Tags: Early Christian Art, Gender Issues, Mary Magdalene, Resurrection|
We do not hear about these women, as if neither we nor early Christians believed they were important. Yet some early Christians apparently believed that these women were of extraordinary importance to the faith. An interview with Dr. Ally Kateusz
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2025-03-18T23:31:19-04:00March 26th, 2025|Tags: Gospel of John, Gospel of Luke, Gospel of Mark, Gospel of Matthew, Gospel of Peter, Mary Magdalene, Resurrection|
Try as they might to erase Mary’s role with Jesus, the fact that her presence is the only consistent thread across all the gospel empty tomb accounts points to Mary’s pivotal role in our understanding of this key event.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2024-08-28T07:00:56-04:00September 4th, 2024|Tags: Crucifixion, Paul, Resurrection, Violence|
We need to think about resurrection and ascension completely differently. The idea of resurrection needs to be understood in the context of justice and redemption.An interview with Dr. J. Dominic Crossan
By Dr. B. Brandon Scott|2024-06-12T02:49:12-04:00June 12th, 2024|Tags: Atonement, Concepts of God, Crucifixion, Judaism, Resurrection|
Dying for the people’s sins and resurrection are tied together from this period forward. The Jesus group who originated the piece of tradition in 1 Corinthians 15:4-5 was not innovating.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2024-06-05T01:40:26-04:00June 5th, 2024|Tags: Gender Issues, Greco-Roman, Meaning of Life, Resurrection, Women|
If Gregory didn't write about her, we wouldn't necessarily know about her. I think those virtues are tied into how she relates to the body, how she thinks about death and the community that she builds around herself. An interview with Dr. Erin Galgay Walsh.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2023-03-30T17:32:25-04:00April 5th, 2023|Tags: Crucifixion, Martyr, Paul, Resurrection, Sacrifice|
In fact, God has made him alive. . . the experience of Jesus and the power of the experience of Jesus is the same before his death and after. An interview with Dr. B. Brandon Scott
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2023-05-30T17:13:26-04:00October 4th, 2022|Tags: Divine Feminine, Gender Issues, Gospel of Mary, Mary Magdalene, Resurrection|
The journey, the spiritual journey for men, is just as important for them to tap into that divine feminine as it is for women. An interview with Rev. Kyndall Rae Rothaus.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2025-03-19T02:47:59-04:00May 4th, 2022|Tags: Crucifixion, Eternal Life, Eucharist, Gospel of Judas, Resurrection|
Jesus is explaining it’s not a good thing that you’re going to have to do, Judas. But it’s part of what must happen for God to set the universe right. An interview with Dr. David Brakke.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2022-07-18T03:51:06-04:00April 25th, 2022|Tags: Early Jesus Followers, Resurrection|
Following up on the March 28, 2022, Bible and Beyond Discussion, our conversation on April 25 continued a study of articulations of Christ peoples’ consideration and elaboration of spiritual resurrection in the first two hundred years CE. Whereas the March study concentrated on the ways Paul’s letters and the Nag Hammadi “Treatise” laid out spiritual resurrection, in this discussion we expanded on notions of spiritual resurrection in passages about empty tombs and visions. Presenter: Dr. Hal Taussig (with host Dr. Shirley Paulson)
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2022-07-18T19:33:21-04:00March 28th, 2022|Tags: Early Jesus Followers, Resurrection|
In the first two centuries, the early Jesus people understand resurrection of the body as a spiritual event -- ‘spiritual bodies’ is a key phrase. Presenter: Dr. Hal Taussig (with host Shirley Paulson, PhD)
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 Shirley Paulson, PhD|2022-02-05T18:28:54-05:00February 9th, 2022|Tags: Gospel of Peter, Mary Magdalene, Noncanonical Texts, Resurrection|
The more I read these other texts, the more light I find shining on the Bible and the spiritual things I’m interested in. Getting a better view of what Mary saw in Gethsemane is worth it.
