This audio recording opens with a reading of a text about St. Paul in Athens where he is proclaiming the good news of god’s revelation in Jesus Christ. The market place in Athens is an important place for discussing and
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This discussion takes place in Rollins College, it is meant to open discussions not necessarily convince or debate. Marcus begins by answering the question ‘if one believes in the meaning of the resurrection is it necessary to believe in the
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The first gospel of Mark is ‘Jesus Christ the Son of God’ in passages two and three Mark quotes a passage from the prophet Isaiah “I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way, the voice
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Opening Statements White speaks first. They open by referencing Paul as talking about having the story passed down to him. White says this indicates that Paul is recording a first hand witness’s event which is not clouded by time. The
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What is the Kingdom of God? Marcus references the christian scholar John Reumann, he wrote “ask any one hundred new testament scholars around the world Protestant, Catholic, Jewish or non-believer ‘what was most central to the message of Jesus?’
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This video is a recording of an interview of Marcus with Interfaith Voices about his book The First Paul: Reclaiming the Radical Visionary Behind the Church’s Conservative Icon which was co-authored with John Dominic Crossan. Multiple Pauls? The interview begins
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In this radio interview Marcus discusses the two gospels that report on the Birth of Jesus and his book The First Christmas. Mathew’s story is much shorter if you remover the genealogy at the beginning the story takes
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This is a radio interview with Marcus about writing The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Tell Us About Jesus’s Birth. Marcus and John Dominic Crossan had already written a book about Holy week, Jesus’s final week, together and
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Marcus speaks on a panel at Harvard Divinity School answering questions from the audience. How do you approach the practice of individual worship with people who are already very involved in the church so that it seems worthwhile and
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This lecture is part three in a series for Harvard Divinity School. Marcus opens with a brief prayer from St. Agustin “O God from whom to be turned is to fall, to whom to be turned is to rise,
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