Render Unto Caesar The Struggle Over Christ And Culture - Professor John Dominic Crossan

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In this episode, Professor Emeritus John Dominic Crossan joins me to discuss his new book Render Unto Caesar The Struggle over Christ and Culture in the New Testament.

In the year 1950, John graduated from St Eunan's College, a boarding high school after this, Crossan joined the Servites, a Catholic religious order, and moved to the United States. He was trained at Stonebridge Seminary, Lake Bluff, Illinois, then ordained a priest in 1957. Crossan returned to Ireland, where he earned his Doctor of Divinity degree in 1959 at St Patrick's College, Maynooth, the Irish national seminary. He then completed two more years of study in biblical languages at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. In 1965 Crossan began two additional years of study (in archaeology) at the Ecole Biblique in Jordanian East Jerusalem. During this time, he travelled through several countries in the region, escaping just days before the outbreak of the Six-Day War of 1967. After a year at St. Mary of the Lake Seminary in Mundelein, Illinois, and a year at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, Crossan chose to resign his priesthood. In the fall of 1969 he joined the faculty of DePaul University, where he taught undergraduates comparative religion for 26 years until retiring in 1995. He has written thirty two books on the historical Jesus in the last fifty six years, four of which have become national religious bestsellers: The Historical Jesus (1991), Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography (1994), Who Killed Jesus (1995), and The Birth of Christianity (1998). He is a former co-chair of the Jesus Seminar, and a former chair of the Historical Jesus Section of the Society of Biblical Literature, an international scholarly association for biblical study based in the United States.

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[TedMichaelMorgan]

Richard Horsley and you have encouraged me to see the lived of Jesus politically and realistly over many years. Thank you.

[KevinHoganChannel]

6 or 7 cried for Barabbas. Not hundreds or thousands. Wow. A complete reframe on my thinking about Pilate and what really is likely to have happened. What an amazing whirlwind coverage of a semester or two in an hour. Fabulous. Crossan is fabulous. I hope you tell him how much his listeners appreciate him. And thank you for bringing this wonderful man's brilliance to us. He shifted quite a bit of my thinking. Thanks Jacob.

[wilkiebunkers]

Best explanation for the pseudo-Pauline epistles I've ever heard.

[turinhorse]

Jacob, my friend. boost that mic volume a bit

[VideoFunForAll]

The "render onto..." saying could possibly be interpreted as "money is irrelevant in the Kingdom of God" as opposed to some pro or contra Roman stance.

[YenkammaNe]

WHAT IS SPECIAL ABOUT BEING A HINDU?
By Francois Gautier.
*Diversity in Divinity and Unity in Spirituality.* Be Your Own Messiah.
1) Believe in God ! - Aastik - Accepted
2) Don't believe in God ! - You're accepted as Nastik
3) You want to worship idols - please go ahead. You are a murti pujak.
4) You dont want to worship idols - no problem. You can focus on Nirguna Brahman.
5) You want to criticise something in our religion. Come forward. We are logical. Nyaya, Tarka etc. are core Hindu schools.
6) You want to accept beliefs as it is. Most welcome. Please go ahead with it.
7) You want to start your journey by reading Bhagvad Gita - Sure !
8) You want to start your journey by reading Upanishads - Go ahead.
9) You want to start your journey by reading Purana - Be my guest.
10) You just don't like reading Puranas or other books. No problem my dear. Go by Bhakti tradition . ( bhakti- devotion)
11) You don't like idea of Bhakti ! No problem. Do your Karma. Be a karmayogi.
12) You want to enjoy life. Very good. No problem at all. This is Charvaka Philosophy.
13) You want to abstain from all the enjoyment of life & find God - jai ho ! Be a Sadhu, an ascetic !
14) You don't like the concept of God. You believe in Nature only - Welcome. (Trees are our friends and Prakriti or nature is worthy of worship).
15) You believe in one God or Supreme Energy. Superb! Follow Advaita philosophy
16) You want a Guru. Go ahead. Receive gyaan.
17) You don't want a Guru.. Help yourself ! Meditate, Study !
18) You believe in Female energy ! Shakti is worshipped.
19) You believe that every human being is equal. Yeah! You're awesome, come on let's celebrate Hinduism!
"Vasudhaiva kutumbakam" (the world is a family)
20) You don't have time to celebrate the festival.
Don't worry. One more festival is coming! There are multiple festivals every single day of the year.
21) You are a working person. Don't have time for religion. Its okay. You will still be a Hindu.
22) You like to go to temples. Devotion is loved.
23) You don't like to go to temples - no problem. You are still a Hindu!
24) You know that Hinduism is a way of life, with considerable freedom.
25) You believe that everything has God in it. So you worship your mother, father, guru, tree, River, Prani-matra, Earth, Universe!
26) And If you don't believe that everything has GOD in it - No problems. Respect your viewpoint.
27) "Sarve jana sukhino bhavantu " (May you all live happily)
You represent this! You're free to choose, my dear Hindu!
This is exactly the essence of Hinduism, all inclusive .. That is why it has withstood the test of time inspite of repeated onslaught both from within and outside, and assimilated every good aspects from everything . That is why it is eternal !!!
There is a saying in Rigveda, the first book ever known to mankind which depicts the Hinduism philosophy in a Nutshell -" Ano bhadrah Krathavo Yanthu Vishwathah"- Let the knowledge come to us from every direction.

[readyfireaim]

Newton: "wait... Leibniz is Humanity's true universal genius?"

Leibniz (behind Newton w/🔫): "always have been."

[readyfireaim]

ToE solution:

The Theory of Everything, as to not be contradictory, would mean Theory of the Fundamentals of Everything. 

Could you imagine the Theory of the Specifics of Everything? Haha 

I contend Gottfried Leibniz was correct about the fundamentals of our contingent universe and he just lacked 2022 verbiage/common knowledge.

More importantly is that humanity chose Isaac Newton's "real" universe, calculus, gravity, etc. This was a mistake. We need to correct this problem.

I've done my couch 🛋 warrior self's best impression of finishing what Leibniz started (with the intention of destroying what Newton started): 

0D = (point); exact location only; non-composite substance. 

(How ironic the symbol for Physics is the symbol for Metaphysics/Monad)

1D = line, straight; two points; composite substances

《0D (point) is exact location only; zero size; not a 'thing', not a 'part'; Monad》

"He is the invisible Spirit, of whom it is not right to think of him as a god, or something similar. For he is more than a god, since there is nothing above him, for no one lords it over him. For he does not exist in something inferior to him, since everything exists in him. For it is he who establishes himself. He is eternal, since he does not need anything. For he is total perfection. A being can have a relationship with a God but not the Monad as that would be a contradiction."

— The Apocryphon of John, 180 AD.

Monad (from Greek μονάς monas, "singularity" in turn from μόνος monos, "alone") refers, in cosmogony, to the Supreme Being, divinity or the totality of all things. 

The concept was reportedly conceived by the Pythagoreans and may refer variously to a single source acting alone, or to an indivisible origin, or to both.

The concept was later adopted by other philosophers, such as Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who referred to the monad as an elementary particle.
[In mathematics, a tuple is a finite ordered list (sequence) of elements. An n-tuple is a sequence (or ordered list) of n elements, where n is a non-negative integer. There is only one 0-tuple, referred to as the empty tuple. An n-tuple is defined inductively using the construction of an ordered pair]

 It had a geometric counterpart, which was debated and discussed contemporaneously by the same groups of people. (they didn't have the verbiage/terminology)

1st four dimensions are 0D, 1D, 2D, 3D ✅.

1st four dimensions are not 1D, 2D, 3D, 4D 🚫.

Human consciousness, mathematically, is identical to 4D quaternion algebra with w, x, y, z being "real/necessary" (0D, 1D, 2D, 3D) and i, j, k being "imaginary/contingent" (1D xi, 2D yj, 3D zk). 

1D-9D 'contingent' universe has "conscious lifeforms" (1D xi, 2D yj, 3D zk)..."turning" 'time'. We're versors "turners", "to turn". Humanity is (3D zk).

"Turn" to what, you might ask. 5D is the center of 1D-9D. The breadth (space-time). All things and parts are drawn to the center, the whole.

[Contingent Universe]:

3 sets of 3 dimensions:
(1D-3D/4D-6D/7D-9D)

The illusory middle set (4D, 5D, 6D) is temporal. Id imagine we create this middle temporal set similar to a dimensional Venn Diagram with polarized lenses that we "turn" by being conscious.

Which requires energy. 3D height Symmetry with 9D absorption is why we are "consumers", we must consume, i.e. calories, and sleep, to continue "to turn" 'time' (be alive).

1D-3D set/7D-9D set overlap creating the temporal illusion of 4D-6D set.

1D, 2D, 3D = spatial composite (line, width, height)

4D, 5D, 6D = temporal illusory (length, breadth, depth)

7D, 8D, 9D = spectra energies (continuous, emission, absorption)

Symmetry: 

1D, 4D, 7D line, length, continuous 

2D, 5D, 8D width, breadth, emission 

3D, 6D, 9D height, depth, absorption

[Thomasw]

The difference between Crossan's Salvation Gospel of Calvin and the Liberation Gospel of N/T. Wright's version of Pauline Theology is the ethical connection between Romans 13:1 - 7, Hebrews 13:17 and the authority of the centurion in Matthew 8:9, Crossan doesn't make this connection, . Crossan;s version of Pauline Theology is congruent with Pope Benedicts Roman Inquistion doctrine he developed in Germany and N.T. Wright's Pauline Theoligy is congruent with George Washington and American Christian Just War Doctrine being demonstrated by K-MAG, currently, N.T. Wright's version of Pauline Theology kisses K'MAG as Justified by Faith,

N.T. Wright's version of Pauline Theology was shared by Patton and Eisenhower. The abiding spirit of the US Army at the General Staff livel is Deist, going back to Willian and Mary and the expungement of the religious enthusiasm of Cromwell and the Round Heads. That's the Liberation Gospel of N.T. Wright's version of Pauline Theology, Pope Francis's Liberaation Theology, The Pro-Choice version of the Bible.

Pope Benedict's version of Pauline Theology is the essence of Christian Nationalism in America.

[sibyrajamani]

Could it be Bar Agbus, son of Agabus?

[bartbannister]

Amazing scholars treat Paul like there is some merit to what he says. He has as much to say as Benny Hinn.

[readyfireaim]

ToE (relevant information):

According to theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli, time is an illusion: our naive perception of its flow doesn't correspond to physical reality. Indeed, as Rovelli argues in The Order of Time, much more is illusory, including Isaac Newton's picture of a universally ticking clock.

Does time exist without space?

Time 'is' as space 'is' - part of a reference frame in which in ordered sequence you can touch, throw and eat apples. 
Time cannot exist without space and the existence of time does require energy.

Time, then, has three levels, according to Leibniz:

(i) the atemporality or eternality of God;

(ii) the continuous immanent becoming-itself of the monad as entelechy;

(iii) time as the external framework of a chronology of “nows”

The difference between (ii) and (iii) is made clear by the account of the internal principle of change. 
The real difference between the necessary being of God and the contingent, created finitude of a human being is the difference between (i) and (ii).

4D = architecture (structure)

5D = design (solution)

Our universal constants have convoluted answers. Leibniz's Law of Sufficient Reason fixes these in a day. 

FUNDAMENTALS > specifics. 

Our calculus is incorrect (Leibniz > Newton):

What is the difference between Newton and Leibniz calculus?

Newton's calculus is about functions. 

Leibniz's calculus is about relations defined by constraints. 

In Newton's calculus, there is (what would now be called) a limit built into every operation. 

In Leibniz's calculus, the limit is a separate operation.

0D = (point)/NOT a 1D point:

[Math; Geometry]
A point is a 0-dimensional mathematical object which can be specified in -dimensional space using an n-tuple (, , ..., ) consisting of. coordinates. In dimensions greater than or equal to two, points are sometimes considered synonymous with vectors and so points in n-dimensional space are sometimes called n-vectors.

[Math; 4D quaternion algebra]
A quaternion is a 4-tuple, which is a more concise representation than a rotation matrix. Its geo- metric meaning is also more obvious as the rotation axis and angle can be trivially recovered.

In mathematics, a versor is a quaternion of norm one (a unit quaternion). The word is derived from Latin versare = "to turn" with the suffix -or forming a noun from the verb (i.e. versor = "the turner"). It was introduced by William Rowan Hamilton in the context of his quaternion theory.

How do you make a quaternion?

You can create an N-by-1 quaternion array by specifying an N-by-3 array of Euler angles in radians or degrees. Use the euler syntax to create a scalar quaternion using a 1-by-3 vector of Euler angles in radians.

[Biology]
Points, conjugate. (Science; Microscopy) The pair of points on the principal axis of a mirror or lens so located that light emitted from either point will be focused at the other. Related points in the object and image are located optically so that one is the image of the other.
(See: polarizing element)