John Dominic Crossan

Jesus called for nonviolent resistance to Rome and just distribution of land and food. He was crucified because he threatened Roman stability…

— John Dominic Crossan

“When a metaphor gets big, it is called “tradition”; when it gets bigger, it is called “reality”;”

— John Dominic Crossan

Jesus is what God looks like in sandals

— John Dominic Crossan

I can be absolutely comfortable with an apocalyptic Jesus because he was simply wrong. As long as he's wrong I don't worry…

— John Dominic Crossan

I'm talking from the point of view of the States, we tend to assassinate people like Jesus, or if we don't we…

— John Dominic Crossan

Jesus told parables. When he wanted to say something really profound about God, he went into parable. I don't find it surprising…

— John Dominic Crossan

If somebody says, you know, to love your enemies, you could say, 'Well I'm going to love them to death.' We've done…

— John Dominic Crossan

“The ecstatic vision and social program sought to rebuild a society upward from its grass roots but on principles of religious and…

— John Dominic Crossan

“. . . I still hold two truths with equal and fundamental certainty. One: the British did terrible things to the Irish.…

— John Dominic Crossan

My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them…

— John Dominic Crossan

Now when you get something like the Apocalypse of John, when this avenging God is going to have blood to the bridle…

— John Dominic Crossan

Jesus' death by crucifixion under Pontius Pilate is as sure as anything historical can ever be. For if no follower of Jesus…

— John Dominic Crossan

The ... challenge of Christmas is this: justice is what happens when all receive a fair share of God's world and only…

— John Dominic Crossan

“To obtain and possess the kingdoms of the world, with their power and glory, by violent injustice is to worship Satan. To…

— John Dominic Crossan

It is impossible to avoid the suspicion that historical Jesus research is a very safe place to do theology and call it…

— John Dominic Crossan

“If an audience kept complete silence during a challenge parable from Jesus and if an audience filed past him afterward saying, 'Lovely…

— John Dominic Crossan

What I notice, as a historian reading stories about so-called nature miracles, the walking on the water, or the miraculous catch of…

— John Dominic Crossan

I find anthropology is a marvellous discipline to shock me out of my own world into another world.

— John Dominic Crossan