A terribly and sadly ironic Christian tradition

5 June, 2013 Karl MöllerLeave a comment

Commenting on Ephesians 5:22-33, John Dominic Crossan notes:

What is most striking about these instructions … is their mutuality and reciprocity. We seem to have spent much more Christian time debating the details of wifely obedience than discussing the details of husbandly self-sacrifice …. It is surely terribly and sadly ironic that Christian tradition demanded subjection from wives and then, rather than demanding self-sacrifice from husbands, transferred that obligation to wives as well.

Well spoken! Once again, this is from God and Empire: Jesus against Rome, Then and Now.

Biblical Studies

The radicality of God’s egalitarian Christian meal

5 June, 20135 June, 2013 Karl MöllerLeave a comment

… those earliest Eucharistic meals were not our present morsel-and-sip ritual but a true meal, called the Lord’s Supper because it was the style of share-meal created by Jesus as a meal-symbol of equality within a community that believed in God’s ownership of food as the material basis of life itself. The radicality of God’s egalitarian Christian meal opposed the normalcy of Rome’s hierarchically patronal meal.

Thus John Dominic Crossan in his fascinating book God and Empire: Jesus against Rome, Then and Now.