Dr. Helen K. Bond is Professor of Christian Origins & Head of the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh. She returns to the podcast for a wide-ranging conversation tackling topics from members of the HBC online Lent group, Jesus De/Constructed. In our chat we discuss…

• what is the difference between the historical Jesus and the Christ of faith?
• how does a historical Jesus scholar do their work?
• the cultural/social/political/religious matrix of the historical Jesus
• the role of honor and shame in Jesus’ culture
• the entanglement of religion and politics
• what is the scholarly consensus around the historical Jesus?
• the political potency of Pilate’s pagan foreign troops in town for the Passover
• what does it mean for Jesus to be an Apocalyptic Jewish figure?
• it’s the end of the world, but what do “end” and “world” mean?
• how did the ancient world understand religion, divinity, and god-talk?
• how should we understand the titles of Jesus in the NT and his historical self-consciousness?
• what does it mean for Jesus to be the Christ?
• why does Paul say so little about the historical Jesus?
• what occasioned the composition of the Gospels?
• you should listen to Helen’s first visit to the podcast…the First Biography of Jesus… PS it is the Gospel of Mark

how does seeing the Gospels as biographies change the way we read them?

go get Helen’s new book Women Remembered: Jesus’ Female Disciples

the role and status of women in the early church

how the transitions within the early church brought back the patriarchy

Tertullian and the Montanists

Helen’s favorite female followers of Jesus

was Jesus a feminist?

what do we know about Mary, the mother of Jesus?

the historical Jesus’ brother James

the cross & resurrection

 

Don’t forget to join Tripp & Diana this Lent for an open online class – Jesus De/constructed! Details here.  Follow the podcast, drop a review, or become a member of the HBC Community.

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