num_pages: 154
description: Jesus Circles presents a way to create a new social order based on Jesus' vision, message, and program. The movement Jesus started among marginalized peasants in Galilee undermined the Roman/ Judean system of domination and violence. His program incarnated an alternative community in which oppressed peasants experienced healing, wholeness and abundance in the midst of a culture of extreme violence. The author peels away layers of interpretive theological material that obscure Jesus' powerful healing and liberating program. Unfortunately, most of the literature of the New Testament is the interpretive work of upper class men trying to fit the radical Jesus into their Greco-Roman cultural frame. "In the half-century before the creation of the first narrative gospel, the Gospel of Mark, a visionary sage was transformed from an iconoclast to an icon and his radical vision of God's domain dissipated in debates about divinity." Through the work of Biblical scholars who incorporate insights from social anthropology and archeology, we can now look behind those editorial embellishments of early Christian literature. What comes to light is Jesus' radical nonviolent a liberating engagement with the marginalized peasants of Galilee that so undermined the Roman Imperial domination system that they killed him. The way out of our captivity in the domination systems of the 21st century is a new world order inherent in Jesus' program; a way in which the abundance of the earth is justly shared and violence is no longer sanctioned. We can experience a contemporary manifestation of Jesus' way of being new humans in the circle process. The book gives specific instructions on forming Jesus Circles that embody an egalitarian path of healing, justice, abundance and peace in the midst of the domination systems of today.
language: English
title: Jesus Circles: A Way To Heal Our Wounds, Subvert The Domination System, And Build An Abundant Future
titlecomplete: Jesus Circles: A Way To Heal Our Wounds, Subvert The Domination System, And Build An Abundant Future
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Xlibris Corp