“If an audience kept complete silence during a challenge parable from Jesus and if an audience filed past him afterward saying, 'Lovely parable, this morning, Rabbi,' Jesus would have failed utterly.” — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
Jesus called for nonviolent resistance to Rome and just distribution of land and food. He was crucified because he threatened Roman stability -- not… — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
“When a metaphor gets big, it is called “tradition”; when it gets bigger, it is called “reality”;” — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
I can be absolutely comfortable with an apocalyptic Jesus because he was simply wrong. As long as he's wrong I don't worry about him,… — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
I'm talking from the point of view of the States, we tend to assassinate people like Jesus, or if we don't we simply marginalise… — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
Jesus told parables. When he wanted to say something really profound about God, he went into parable. I don't find it surprising then that… — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
If somebody says, you know, to love your enemies, you could say, 'Well I'm going to love them to death.' We've done that sort… — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
“The ecstatic vision and social program sought to rebuild a society upward from its grass roots but on principles of religious and economic egalitarianism,… — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
“. . . I still hold two truths with equal and fundamental certainty. One: the British did terrible things to the Irish. Two: the… — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but… — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
Now when you get something like the Apocalypse of John, when this avenging God is going to have blood to the bridle bits for… — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
Jesus' death by crucifixion under Pontius Pilate is as sure as anything historical can ever be. For if no follower of Jesus had written… — John Dominic Crossan Copy Share Image
