Ancient Quote by 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 -- not…

— 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 about him,…

— 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 simply marginalise…

— 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 then that…

— 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 that sort…

— 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 economic egalitarianism,…

— John Dominic Crossan

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

— 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 bits for…

— 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 had written…

— 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 such distributive…

— John Dominic Crossan