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Название: Jesus, Disciple of the Kingdom

Автор: Osvaldo D. Vena

Издательство: Ingram

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      Jesus, Disciple of the Kingdom

      Mark’s Christology for a Community in Crisis

      Osvaldo D. Vena

      With a Foreword by Ched Myers

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      Jesus, Disciple of the Kingdom

      Mark’s Christology for a Community in Crisis

      Copyright © 2014 Osvaldo D. Vena. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3, Eugene, OR 97401.

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      isbn 13: 978-1-61097-940-5

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      Vena, Osvaldo D.

      Jesus, disciple of the kingdom : Mark’s christology for a community in crisis / Osvaldo D. Vena ; with a foreword by Ched Myers.

      xvi + 206 pp. ; 23 cm—Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

      isbn 13: 978-1-61097-940-5

      1. Jesus Christ—History of doctrines—Early church, ca. 30–600. 2. Bible. N.T. Mark—Criticism, interpretation, etc. I. Title.

      BS2585.52 V45 2014

      Manufactured in the USA

      To my wife Patricia

      and my sons Matías and Julián,

      companions in the journey of discipleship

      Foreword

      by Ched Myers

      Osvaldo Vena’s study is an exception to this lamentable rule. As a child of liberation theology, he is suspicious of presumptions of scholarly insularity or “objective” aloofness. Nor does he accept the balkanization of critical analysis, genuine faith and social commitment. Vena understands that the ideology of discipleship narrated in the Markan text cannot ultimately be untangled from questions about contemporary Christian practice. The “endless discussion” among First World academics about “the true identity of the historical Jesus,” he rightly complains, serves mostly to “contribute to a generalized confusion about who Jesus really was” while distracting us from engaging “how we are to live as disciples in our historical context.”

      Mark is, according to the argument of this book, “a creative and innovative Christologist” who contributed “two crucial concepts that have shaped Christian theology and praxis for the last 2,000 years: the idea of discipleship, which refers to the relationship between the believers and Jesus, and the Son of Man metaphor, which talks about the relationship between Jesus and the community of believers.” Vena illuminates both concepts, and connects them by exploring how the Son of Man rubric in Mark can (and should) be understood “through the hermeneutical key of discipleship.” Jesus’ call to the Way of the cross—which Vena recognizes stands at the literary and ideological center of Mark—recontextualizes Daniel’s apocalyptic vision of nonviolent resistance. The communal suffering of the faithful will be vindicated by divine justice, and is thus revealed as redemptive.

      Vena’s project is not promoting a “low Christology,” as some defenders of ecclesial orthodoxy will inevitably charge. Rather he seeks to re-ground christological discourse (in which, he affirms, every believing community must engage) in the “prototype” of Jesus’ own discipleship. In this he stays true to the Latin American commitment to the primacy of praxis. This focus also challenges the longstanding docetic tendency in North Atlantic Christology to be preoccupied with ontological debates. This volume also includes a creative attempt to appreciate the longer ending of Mark, using it as an example of how Christological imagination changes under shifting historical pressures. Whether or not Vena’s model will succeed in “bridging the gap” between Christus Victor and traditional “Suffering Servant” atonement Christologies remains to be seen. But this book will surely help seminary and sanctuary return to the roots of the gospel tradition by re-centering the call to discipleship—Jesus’ and ours.

      Mark wrote to help imperial subjects (in the first century and today) learn the hard truth about our world and our selves. This story of Jesus does not pretend to represent the Word of God dispassionately or impartially; it was written by, about, and for those engaged in God’s work of justice, compassion, and liberation in the world. To the otherworldly religious, Mark’s Jesus offers no “signs from heaven” (Mark 8:11–12). To scholars who refuse to commit themselves concerning the life and death issues of the day, Jesus declines engagement (11:30–33). But to those willing to risk the wrath of empire, Jesus offers the Way of discipleship (8:34ff.)—which Way he not only proclaims, but embodies, thus empowering us to follow. This is the old story, Vena argues, and its time has come again.

      References

      Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. The Cost of Discipleship. New York: Macmillan, 1966.

      Gill, Athol. Life on СКАЧАТЬ