{"id":101375,"date":"2017-10-19T02:18:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T09:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=101375"},"modified":"2017-10-19T02:18:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T09:18:30","slug":"going-to-the-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2017\/10\/going-to-the-dogs.html","title":{"rendered":"Going to the Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

The latest in my series on Jesus and the Canaanite Woman for Catholic Weekly<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a taste:<\/p>\n

Last time<\/a>\u00a0we focused on the contention that the story of\u00a0Jesus and the Canaanite Woman<\/a>\u00a0could be legitimately read as Jesus learning from the Canaanite Woman as long as it does not involve the contention that he was learning to repent his sin of racism or ethnocentrism. Because Jesus is \u201clike us in all things but sin\u201d (Hebrews 4:15). Jesus never repented the sin of racism for the very good reason that he is the sinless lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world (John 1:29) and therefore had nothing to repent.<\/p>\n

But let\u2019s move on with my reader\u2019s take, which argues that Jesus is \u201cethnocentric to first century Israel\u201d, deliberately \u201crepeats his culture\u2019s stereotype\u201d about the Canaanite Woman and deliberately insults her. He continues:<\/p>\n

Please, let\u2019s read this story in context without 2,000 years of theological freight, devotional freight, and emotional freight plus psychological guilt. When he sent the Twelve on mission, the Matthean Jesus directed them to \u201cthe lost sheep of the house of Israel\u201d and urged them to steer clear of the Gentiles and Samaritans (Matthew 10:5-6).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This kind of argumentation is always problematic to me. Yes, it is true that we need to situate the gospels in their cultural context. But it is stealing a lot of bases to suggest that anybody who does not instantly accept the claims that Jesus is ethnocentric and deliberately insulting the Canaanite Woman is a benighted simpleton weighed down by \u201ctheological freight, devotional freight, and emotional freight plus psychological guilt\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Much more here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest in my series on Jesus and the Canaanite Woman for Catholic Weekly. Here\u2019s a taste: Last time\u00a0we focused on the contention that the story of\u00a0Jesus and the Canaanite Woman\u00a0could be legitimately read as Jesus learning from the Canaanite Woman as long as it does not involve the contention that he was learning to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[836],"class_list":["post-101375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-catholic-weekly-stuff"],"yoast_head":"\nGoing to the Dogs<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The latest in my series on Jesus and the Canaanite Woman for Catholic Weekly. 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