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  • No Irrelevant Jesus: On Jesus and the Church Today
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  • Gerhard Lohfink
    Translated by Linda M. Maloney
  • 2014
  • Published by: Liturgical Press
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Is Jesus relevant for today? If you think not, don’t bother with this book. But if you think that Jesus might have something to say to today’s world, which Jesus comes to mind? Is he “gentle Jesus, meek and mild,” offering individual salvation but with no message for a suffering world? Is he to be remembered as a Zealot fighting for a hopeless cause or as an outstanding rabbi? Was he a prophet in the long series of Israel’s prophets or a religious founder like Muhammad or Gautama? Or was Jesus unique, a man utterly consumed by zeal for the reign of God, by the “fierce urgency of now,” the leader of a movement dedicated to God’s cause but committed to nonviolence and living for others? If we seek him, can we find him in the churches? In No Irrelevant Jesus, Gerhard Lohfink, author of the acclaimed Jesus of Nazareth, explores these questions and offers a resounding yes to the relevance of Jesus today.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Praise, Dedication
  2. pp. i-vi
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Preface
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. p. xi
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  1. Chapter 1. On Not Taming Jesus
  2. pp. 1-19
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  1. Chapter 2. Jesus Revolutionizes Linear Time
  2. pp. 20-36
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  1. Chapter 3. How Will the Hungry Be Filled in the Reign of God?
  2. pp. 37-46
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  1. Chapter 4. How Did Jesus Heal?
  2. pp. 47-63
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  1. Chapter 5. What Does the Love Commandment Mean?
  2. pp. 64-74
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  1. Chapter 6. No Place for Warriors in the Name of God
  2. pp. 75-85
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  1. Chapter 7. Did Jesus Die for “Many” or for “All”?
  2. pp. 86-89
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  1. Chapter 8. How Could an Individual Redeem the Whole World?
  2. pp. 90-104
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  1. Chapter 9. Jesus and the Shattered People of God
  2. pp. 105-120
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  1. Chapter 10. The Canon and the Many Confessions
  2. pp. 121-131
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  1. Chapter 11. Some Irenic Thoughts on the Episcopacy and the Primacy
  2. pp. 132-142
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  1. Chapter 12. Must the Pope Be Conservative?
  2. pp. 143-146
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  1. Chapter 13. What Constitutes the Church’s “Newness”?
  2. pp. 147-159
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  1. Chapter 14. The Church’s Proper Name Is “Assembly”
  2. pp. 160-174
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  1. Chapter 15. The Unknown Paul
  2. pp. 175-186
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  1. Chapter 16. How a Sacrament Works
  2. pp. 187-206
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  1. Chapter 17. A Catastrophe in the Life of David
  2. pp. 207-219
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  1. Chapter 18. On the Sense and Nonsense of Good Intentions
  2. pp. 220-225
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  1. Chapter 19. Has the Church Been Deprived of Fasting?
  2. pp. 226-230
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  1. Chapter 20. Prayer as Access to Reality
  2. pp. 231-246
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  1. Chapter 21. What Distinguishes Christianity from the Religions?
  2. pp. 247-265
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  1. Chapter 22. Where Do We Get Our “Values”?
  2. pp. 266-278
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  1. Chapter 23. The Magnificat: Signal for a Revolution
  2. pp. 279-284
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  1. Chapter 24. Faith: How Does It Work?
  2. pp. 285-300
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  1. Chapter 25. The Bible in My Life as an Exegete
  2. pp. 301-314
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 315-321
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  1. Index of Biblical Citations and Other Ancient Literature
  2. pp. 322-327
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  1. Index of Proper Names
  2. pp. 328-330
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