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Audios & Videos
1994–1997
Doug Adams
Love Grandma: The Humor of Paul's Letters
Fall 1994
Doug Adams reveals many examples of humor in Paul's letters and demonstrates methods for bringing that humor to life.
1 DVD, 60 minutes, $20.00 Add to Cart
Marcus Borg
The Pre-Easter Jesus
Spring 1994
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Marcus Borg's sketch of Jesus is drawn with five broad strokes, each of which identifies a central characteristic of Jesus which corresponds to a type of religious figure known in many cultures: the ecstatic, the healer, the wisdom teacher, the prophet, and the movement initiator. The most foundational of these, he says, are Jesus' ecstatic religious experiences.
4 CDs, 4 hours, $35.00 Add to Cart
2 DVDs, 4 hours, $35.00 Add to Cart
John Dominic Crossan
A Death in Jerusalem
Fall 1995
What really happened in the final days of Jesus' life—and at the hour of his death? John Dominic Crossan, the best selling author of Who Killed Jesus, leads an intensive and interactive workshop on the historical events and the gospel accounts of the death of Jesus—and in the process explores the deep roots of Christian anti-Semitism.
4 CDs, 4 hours, $35.00 Add to Cart
2 DVDs, 4 hours, $35.00 Add to Cart
John Dominic Crossan
Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography
Spring 1994
In this unique presentation, John Dominic Crossan offers a compelling step-by-step exploration of his acclaimed bestseller Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography.
4 CDs. 4 hours, $35.00 Add to Cart
2 DVDs. 4 hours, $35.00 Add to Cart
Robert W. Funk
The Acts of Jesus in Color
Fall 1997
According to the Jesus Seminar, we can be certain of only a few scattered facts about the historical Jesus: he was baptized by John, he taught in parables and witticisms, he was a charismatic healer, and he was put to death by the Romans. Robert Funk summarizes and discusses the second report of the Jesus Seminar—The Acts of Jesus: The Search for the Authentic Deeds—and explores its implications for the church and for the historic confessions of faith.
1 DVD, 90 minutes, $20.00 Add to cart
Robert W. Funk
The Gospel of Jesus and the Jesus of the Gospels
Spring 1994
The vision of the historical Jesus that emerges from his authentic sayings cannot be reconciled with the Christ figure described in the early Christian gospels. Here Robert Funk contrasts the gospel of Jesus with the proclamation of the primitive Christian church found in the gospels and in the Apostles' Creed. He demonstrates how Jesus of Nazareth was transformed from a wandering sage into a heavenly redeemer in the course of a few years.
1 DVD, 90 minutes, $20.00 Add to Cart
Robert W. Funk
Jesus for a New Millennium
Fall 1996
What does the real Jesus have to say about the religion that bears his name? Robert Funk author of Honest to Jesus, maintains that Jesus will remain speechless unless liberated from the scriptural and creedal and experiential dungeons where he lies chained. Funk predicts that, once liberated, Jesus will explode prevailing notions of Christianity.
2 DVDs, 4 hours, $35.00 Add to Cart
Robert W. Funk
Setting Jesus Free
Fall 1995
In the view of Robert Funk, Jesus has been bound up in scriptural and creedal chains. The renewed quest for the historical Jesus—as carried forward by the Jesus Seminar—has helped to set Jesus free and to explode prevailing notions of Christianity. Robert Funk discusses the shift in our views of the gospels and Christian origins, the issues raised by the renewed quest, and the possibilities for Christianity recovering its roots.
1 DVD, 90 minutes, $20.00 Add to Cart
Ronald F. Hock
Away with the Manger:
The Infancy Gospels of James and Thomas
Fall 1994
Ronald Hock illuminates the contents, purposes, and backgrounds of the infancy narratives and clarifies their place in the development of a distinctively Christian tradition.
2 DVDs, 4 hours, $35.00 Add to Cart
Roy W. Hoover
The Historical Jesus and Contemporary Belief
Spring 1997
What are the consequences of our knowledge about the historical Jesus? Roy Hoover examines four important issues: (1) If Jesus is not the pre-existent son of God, what is his significance for contemporary faith and culture? (2) Should we continue to speak of the Bible as the inspired word of God? (3) Are Jesus' ethical teachings usable as a guide to a good life, or only an impossible dream? (4) What should we make of belief in life after death?
2 DVD, 4 hours, $35.00 Add to Cart
Gerd Lüdemann
The Resurrection of Jesus: Hoax or History?
Spring 1995
Is the resurrection of Jesus "both an indispensable requisite of theology and an empty phrase" as Gerd Luedemann believes. Here he offers his honest answer to the question of what really happened at the resurrection.
1 DVD, 90 minutes, $20.00 Add to Cart
Elaine Pagels
The Origin of Satan
Spring 1995
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Who is Satan? How did he become the embodiment of evil in the New Testament? Bestselling author and scholar Elaine Pagels shows how a struggle between followers of Jesus and the Jewish majority turned into a demonization of the "intimate enemies"—and how pagans and dissenting Christians also came to be branded agents of Satan.
1 DVD, 90 minutes, $20.00 Add to Cart
Stephen J. Patterson
The Mystery of the Gospel of Thomas
Fall 1994
Stephen Patterson examines the mysteries surrounding the Gospel of Thomas. How was it lost? Where was it found? Why isn't it in the New Testament? Does it represent a new, independent source for studying Jesus? Does it change our picture of Jesus? What does the Gospel of Thomas have to do with asceticism and gnosticism?
2 DVDs, 4 hours, $35.00 Add to Cart
Jane Schaberg
Jesus' Birth: Illegitimate or Virginal?
Fall 1995
Focusing on the Gospel of Matthew, Jane Schaberg summarizes the arguments for the gospel text being about an illegitimate conception rather than a miraculous virginal birth.
1 DVD, 90 minutes, $20.00 Add to Cart
Daryl Schmidt
Resurrection: Keeping Jesus in Sight
Spring 1995
Daryl Schmidt makes sense of the various versions of the resurrection by examining relevant texts for historical traces and exposing the often striking differences among the various reports of the resurrections.
2 DVDs, 4 hours, $35.00 Add to Cart
Chris Shea
Endwatch: Deciphering the Codes of Apocalypticism
Spring 1995
Chris Shea presents an eye-opening view of apocalypticism, showing that it is more a product of popular culture than of theology. She looks at popular movies, such a Terminator 2 in which she finds a fully-realized film version of the Book of Revelation.
2 DVDs, 4 hours, $35.00 Add to Cart
Thomas Sheehan
The Way the World Ends
Fall 1995
Will the world end in a series of unprecedented events—rapture, second coming? The author of The First Coming shows how the apocalyptic view of history flies in the face of empirical science and distorts the meaning of Jewish and Christian scriptures.
1 DVD, 60 minutes, $20.00 Add to Cart
John Shelby Spong
Did Christians Invent Judas?
Fall 1994
Was Judas invented by early Christians to transfer the blame for Jesus' death from the Romans to the Jews? Bishop Spong notes that many of the details of the betrayal were borrowed from Hebrew scriptures. He also observes that the name Judas is a cipher for the Jewish nation. In fact, he says, everything about the Judas narrative suggests that this is a late-developing legend, created to serve the needs of Gentile Christians in the last half of the first century.
1 DVD, 90 minutes, $20.00 Add to Cart
John Shelby Spong
Reading the Gospels with Jewish Eyes
Fall 1996
Startling new insights emerge when the gospels are read from a Jewish perspective—a perspective to which many Christians may be blind. Viewed this way, the organizing principle behind the gospels appears not to be memory, biography or history. Instead, the key events of Jesus' life seem to closely follow an orderly cycle of Jewish feasts and rites of passage.
1 DVD, 90 minutes, $20.00 Add to Cart
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