{"id":1164,"date":"2013-10-09T22:17:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T22:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/10\/was-jesus-political-undoubtedly.html"},"modified":"2013-10-09T22:17:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T22:17:00","slug":"was-jesus-political-undoubtedly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/10\/was-jesus-political-undoubtedly.html","title":{"rendered":"Was Jesus Political? Undoubtedly"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"background-color: white;border: 0px;line-height: 21px;margin-bottom: 14px;padding: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">Let\u2019s get this out of the way right away: Jesus was political.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;border: 0px;line-height: 21px;margin-bottom: 14px;padding: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">His preaching was tinged with political statements. His healings carried massive political implications for the ways we structure our world and understand our neighbor. His execution was of the kind reserved for acts of political disruption. That is, he died on a cross because the political authorities of his day saw him as a threat to the political structures and order of his day.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;border: 0px;line-height: 21px;margin-bottom: 14px;padding: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">Jesus was political. His preaching was political. His ministry was political.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;border: 0px;line-height: 21px;margin-bottom: 14px;padding: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">I feel compelled to say this because Bill O\u2019Reilly\u2019s recent book has once again highlighted one of the most misunderstood facets of Jesus\u2019 ministry.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/oreilly-confronts-professor-who-criticized-him-over-killing-jesus-book\/\" style=\"border: 0px;color: #771c85;margin: 0px;padding: 0px;text-decoration: none\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">In a recent interview with New Testament scholar Candida Moss<\/a>, he denies that Jesus was a political figure. Instead, he claims, Jesus focused on the spiritual matters of life. (As if spiritual and religious matters didn\u2019t overlap then or still do today.)<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;border: 0px;line-height: 21px;margin-bottom: 14px;padding: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">To cinch his case, O\u2019Reilly quotes Jesus: \u201cGive to Caesar what is Caesar\u2019s.\u201d This, O\u2019Reilly concludes, demonstrates that Jesus separated the political and religious worlds for good, the two ought never meet. There is a realm where Caesar rules and another where God rules.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;border: 0px;line-height: 21px;margin-bottom: 14px;padding: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">Of course, O\u2019Reilly is not alone in these conclusions. But he and many other Christians are simply wrong about what Jesus is saying here. Many of us have misread this statement in a way that actually evinces an anemic theology.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;border: 0px;line-height: 21px;margin-bottom: 14px;padding: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/rev-dr-eric-d-barreto\/was-jesus-political-undou_b_4051603.html?utm_hp_ref=religion\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s get this out of the way right away: Jesus was political. His preaching was tinged with political statements. His healings carried massive political implications for the ways we structure our world and understand our neighbor. His execution was of the kind reserved for acts of political disruption. 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