Stephen J. Patterson: Jesus the Wisdom Sage:
"It is becoming ever more difficult to imagine a Jesus who reflected upon his own death, and preached an imminent apocaylptic judgment to be visited upon the world.'' (The Gospel of Thomas and Jesus, p. 231)
Apposite.
Though our NT canon contains much that contradicts the creedal messianic understanding, that understanding clearly dominates and makes more difficult the need to disabuse it of its power and expose its allegiance to thought patterns that have been ruinous to our system of values.
Only now are we on the cusp of a new freedom. It signals a movement from fivided religions to universal spirituality and values - to tolerance, democracy, helpfulness and non-idolatry.
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