This book is a revised edition of the original 2014 volume. It retains all the text of the first ... more This book is a revised edition of the original 2014 volume. It retains all the text of the first edition with some corrections. Though some updating in the bibliography would have been appreciated, this does not hinder the present volume nor its purpose. On the one hand, whilst keeping up with the current academic debate, the book represents a welcome effort to reach a broader, if knowledgeable, audience. On the other, studies on scribal status and literacy are a growing subfield in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins, especially among social memory practitioners. To be sure, Keith’s previous research, and particularly his Jesus’ Literacy: Scribal Culture and the Teacher from Galilee (2011), furnishes the backdrop for the present volume. In this vein, Jesus against the Scribal Elite tackles the conflict between Jesus and the scribal elite in terms of literacy and its social perception. After an introduction, the first two chapters present the question: what is to be understood by ‘literacy’, particularly when applied to scribal circles, and how did Jesus relate to it? The latter has not a plain answer as Jesus’s scribal literacy was a disputed issue even in the Gospels – from Mark presenting a scribalilliterate Jesus (‘the carpenter’, Mark 6:3) to Luke firmly placing him in the scribal-literate class (Luke 4:16-30). Chapter three draws explicitly from social memory insights and confronts the criteria approach, by which just one of these conflicting portrays of Jesus would have been deemed ‘authentic’. Chapter four identifies the social perception of mixed audiences at the root of this split image, and chapter five focuses on the controversies between Jesus and the scribal elite around authority and Scripture. Chapter six critically takes on past scholarship that envisions an uncontested Jesus in terms of recognized authority, when the point is that, in Keith’s reconstruction and to scribal-literate eyes, Jesus was ‘posing’ as a teacher. Finally, the conclusion emphasizes the conflict around scribal authority, particularly the confusion around Jesus’s scribal-literate status, as a constituent of Jesus’ early career, and not necessarily as one of the reasons that ultimately lead Jesus to the cross under Roman rule. While this last remark is somewhat puzzling in a study that stresses social perception, the book provides a suggestive reading and has the merit to combine plausibility with rigorous historical study. It also elicits interesting questions. For instance: Was Jesus exceptional in his ‘scribal posturing’? Other elements among scribal ranks could have profited by proxy of the higher status of scribal elites in a society under the honour/shame axis – which raises interesting thoughts about scribal dynamics. So, what was it precisely about Jesus that triggered scribal hostility? Maybe, as much as his cross-boundary between manual labours and authority scribes, his activity as healer and prophet while claiming scribal authority.
Razón y fe: Revista hispanoamericana de cultura, 2017
Con la perspectiva que nos ofrecen cinco siglos, el dialogo entre catolicos y luteranos va mostra... more Con la perspectiva que nos ofrecen cinco siglos, el dialogo entre catolicos y luteranos va mostrando unos frutos cada vez mas esperanzadores, en un esfuerzo constante por caminar hacia la convergencia. Ambas iglesias trabajan juntas desde hace casi medio siglo para evidenciar lo que nos une a los cristianos en vez de lo que nos separa. La Reforma protestante surgio, entre otras cosas, como reaccion al escandalo de las indulgencias. Con sus noventa y cinco tesis Lutero pretendia convocar una disputatio, un ejercicio intelectual de argumentacion y discusion academica, y es precisamente ese el concepto que —con el dialogo ecumenico— se intenta rescatar desde hace cuarenta anos. La llamada teologia de la justificacion es sin duda una idea central en la Reforma, aunque su formulacion inicial seria poco a poco madurada y sometida a constantes matices y revisiones tanto en el seno del protestantismo como del catolicismo.
In this ongoing conversation, I try to make a reading of Supernatural Senses in which I want to b... more In this ongoing conversation, I try to make a reading of Supernatural Senses in which I want to braid together the images and threads of thought that Cristina Campo evokes in her text with my own theological baggage and sensitivity, inherited from the historical protestantism born of the sixteenth century. With a very personal reading, then, I go down the avenues that Cristina proposes of the concepts of mysticism, theosis and salvation/justification/regeneration of the senses.
Comunicaciones presentadas en el Congreso Internacional de Espiritualidad Laical : Hombres y mujeres de Espíritu en el siglo XXI, 2011, ISBN 978-84-7299-929-9, págs. 313-322, 2011
This book is a revised edition of the original 2014 volume. It retains all the text of the first ... more This book is a revised edition of the original 2014 volume. It retains all the text of the first edition with some corrections. Though some updating in the bibliography would have been appreciated, this does not hinder the present volume nor its purpose. On the one hand, whilst keeping up with the current academic debate, the book represents a welcome effort to reach a broader, if knowledgeable, audience. On the other, studies on scribal status and literacy are a growing subfield in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins, especially among social memory practitioners. To be sure, Keith’s previous research, and particularly his Jesus’ Literacy: Scribal Culture and the Teacher from Galilee (2011), furnishes the backdrop for the present volume. In this vein, Jesus against the Scribal Elite tackles the conflict between Jesus and the scribal elite in terms of literacy and its social perception. After an introduction, the first two chapters present the question: what is to be understo...
Con la perspectiva que nos ofrecen cinco siglos, el dialogo entre catolicos y luteranos va mostra... more Con la perspectiva que nos ofrecen cinco siglos, el dialogo entre catolicos y luteranos va mostrando unos frutos cada vez mas esperanzadores, en un esfuerzo constante por caminar hacia la convergencia. Ambas iglesias trabajan juntas desde hace casi medio siglo para evidenciar lo que nos une a los cristianos en vez de lo que nos separa. La Reforma protestante surgio, entre otras cosas, como reaccion al escandalo de las indulgencias. Con sus noventa y cinco tesis Lutero pretendia convocar una disputatio, un ejercicio intelectual de argumentacion y discusion academica, y es precisamente ese el concepto que —con el dialogo ecumenico— se intenta rescatar desde hace cuarenta anos. La llamada teologia de la justificacion es sin duda una idea central en la Reforma, aunque su formulacion inicial seria poco a poco madurada y sometida a constantes matices y revisiones tanto en el seno del protestantismo como del catolicismo.
In this ongoing conversation, I try to make a reading of Supernatural Senses in which I want to b... more In this ongoing conversation, I try to make a reading of Supernatural Senses in which I want to braid together the images and threads of thought that Cristina Campo evokes in her text with my own theological baggage and sensitivity, inherited from the historical protestantism born of the sixteenth century. With a very personal reading, then, I go down the avenues that Cristina proposes of the concepts of mysticism, theosis and salvation/justification/regeneration of the senses.
This book is a revised edition of the original 2014 volume. It retains all the text of the first ... more This book is a revised edition of the original 2014 volume. It retains all the text of the first edition with some corrections. Though some updating in the bibliography would have been appreciated, this does not hinder the present volume nor its purpose. On the one hand, whilst keeping up with the current academic debate, the book represents a welcome effort to reach a broader, if knowledgeable, audience. On the other, studies on scribal status and literacy are a growing subfield in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins, especially among social memory practitioners. To be sure, Keith’s previous research, and particularly his Jesus’ Literacy: Scribal Culture and the Teacher from Galilee (2011), furnishes the backdrop for the present volume. In this vein, Jesus against the Scribal Elite tackles the conflict between Jesus and the scribal elite in terms of literacy and its social perception. After an introduction, the first two chapters present the question: what is to be understood by ‘literacy’, particularly when applied to scribal circles, and how did Jesus relate to it? The latter has not a plain answer as Jesus’s scribal literacy was a disputed issue even in the Gospels – from Mark presenting a scribalilliterate Jesus (‘the carpenter’, Mark 6:3) to Luke firmly placing him in the scribal-literate class (Luke 4:16-30). Chapter three draws explicitly from social memory insights and confronts the criteria approach, by which just one of these conflicting portrays of Jesus would have been deemed ‘authentic’. Chapter four identifies the social perception of mixed audiences at the root of this split image, and chapter five focuses on the controversies between Jesus and the scribal elite around authority and Scripture. Chapter six critically takes on past scholarship that envisions an uncontested Jesus in terms of recognized authority, when the point is that, in Keith’s reconstruction and to scribal-literate eyes, Jesus was ‘posing’ as a teacher. Finally, the conclusion emphasizes the conflict around scribal authority, particularly the confusion around Jesus’s scribal-literate status, as a constituent of Jesus’ early career, and not necessarily as one of the reasons that ultimately lead Jesus to the cross under Roman rule. While this last remark is somewhat puzzling in a study that stresses social perception, the book provides a suggestive reading and has the merit to combine plausibility with rigorous historical study. It also elicits interesting questions. For instance: Was Jesus exceptional in his ‘scribal posturing’? Other elements among scribal ranks could have profited by proxy of the higher status of scribal elites in a society under the honour/shame axis – which raises interesting thoughts about scribal dynamics. So, what was it precisely about Jesus that triggered scribal hostility? Maybe, as much as his cross-boundary between manual labours and authority scribes, his activity as healer and prophet while claiming scribal authority.
Razón y fe: Revista hispanoamericana de cultura, 2017
Con la perspectiva que nos ofrecen cinco siglos, el dialogo entre catolicos y luteranos va mostra... more Con la perspectiva que nos ofrecen cinco siglos, el dialogo entre catolicos y luteranos va mostrando unos frutos cada vez mas esperanzadores, en un esfuerzo constante por caminar hacia la convergencia. Ambas iglesias trabajan juntas desde hace casi medio siglo para evidenciar lo que nos une a los cristianos en vez de lo que nos separa. La Reforma protestante surgio, entre otras cosas, como reaccion al escandalo de las indulgencias. Con sus noventa y cinco tesis Lutero pretendia convocar una disputatio, un ejercicio intelectual de argumentacion y discusion academica, y es precisamente ese el concepto que —con el dialogo ecumenico— se intenta rescatar desde hace cuarenta anos. La llamada teologia de la justificacion es sin duda una idea central en la Reforma, aunque su formulacion inicial seria poco a poco madurada y sometida a constantes matices y revisiones tanto en el seno del protestantismo como del catolicismo.
In this ongoing conversation, I try to make a reading of Supernatural Senses in which I want to b... more In this ongoing conversation, I try to make a reading of Supernatural Senses in which I want to braid together the images and threads of thought that Cristina Campo evokes in her text with my own theological baggage and sensitivity, inherited from the historical protestantism born of the sixteenth century. With a very personal reading, then, I go down the avenues that Cristina proposes of the concepts of mysticism, theosis and salvation/justification/regeneration of the senses.
Comunicaciones presentadas en el Congreso Internacional de Espiritualidad Laical : Hombres y mujeres de Espíritu en el siglo XXI, 2011, ISBN 978-84-7299-929-9, págs. 313-322, 2011
This book is a revised edition of the original 2014 volume. It retains all the text of the first ... more This book is a revised edition of the original 2014 volume. It retains all the text of the first edition with some corrections. Though some updating in the bibliography would have been appreciated, this does not hinder the present volume nor its purpose. On the one hand, whilst keeping up with the current academic debate, the book represents a welcome effort to reach a broader, if knowledgeable, audience. On the other, studies on scribal status and literacy are a growing subfield in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins, especially among social memory practitioners. To be sure, Keith’s previous research, and particularly his Jesus’ Literacy: Scribal Culture and the Teacher from Galilee (2011), furnishes the backdrop for the present volume. In this vein, Jesus against the Scribal Elite tackles the conflict between Jesus and the scribal elite in terms of literacy and its social perception. After an introduction, the first two chapters present the question: what is to be understo...
Con la perspectiva que nos ofrecen cinco siglos, el dialogo entre catolicos y luteranos va mostra... more Con la perspectiva que nos ofrecen cinco siglos, el dialogo entre catolicos y luteranos va mostrando unos frutos cada vez mas esperanzadores, en un esfuerzo constante por caminar hacia la convergencia. Ambas iglesias trabajan juntas desde hace casi medio siglo para evidenciar lo que nos une a los cristianos en vez de lo que nos separa. La Reforma protestante surgio, entre otras cosas, como reaccion al escandalo de las indulgencias. Con sus noventa y cinco tesis Lutero pretendia convocar una disputatio, un ejercicio intelectual de argumentacion y discusion academica, y es precisamente ese el concepto que —con el dialogo ecumenico— se intenta rescatar desde hace cuarenta anos. La llamada teologia de la justificacion es sin duda una idea central en la Reforma, aunque su formulacion inicial seria poco a poco madurada y sometida a constantes matices y revisiones tanto en el seno del protestantismo como del catolicismo.
In this ongoing conversation, I try to make a reading of Supernatural Senses in which I want to b... more In this ongoing conversation, I try to make a reading of Supernatural Senses in which I want to braid together the images and threads of thought that Cristina Campo evokes in her text with my own theological baggage and sensitivity, inherited from the historical protestantism born of the sixteenth century. With a very personal reading, then, I go down the avenues that Cristina proposes of the concepts of mysticism, theosis and salvation/justification/regeneration of the senses.
Ponencia de respuesta a la ponencia previa de Historia del VIII Congreso Evangélico Español (13 d... more Ponencia de respuesta a la ponencia previa de Historia del VIII Congreso Evangélico Español (13 de julio de 2017). Todas las ponencias están disponibles en http://500reforma.org/viii-congreso-evangelico/ponencias-previas
Genealogías del trauma. Cuerpos abusados, memorias reconciliadas, 2022
En esta obra colectiva, las perspectivas con las que se aborda el trauma (teológicas, pastorales,... more En esta obra colectiva, las perspectivas con las que se aborda el trauma (teológicas, pastorales, artísticas, terapéuticas, eclesiales) son diversas, pero todas tienen en cuenta la doble vertiente del trauma: quebramiento y recociliación. En esta doble vertiente, el cuerpo de las mujeres emerge como lugar donde el trauma aflora a la vez que se oculta. De aquí que este libro preste atención a realidades tales como el abuso sexual en la Iglesia, el perdón, la gracia, la resurreciión o el trauma transgeneracional.
Reforma y reformas en la Iglesia. Miradas críticas de las mujeres cristianas, 2018
La conmemoración del V centenario de la Reforma protestante en el año 2017 fue el motivo de la el... more La conmemoración del V centenario de la Reforma protestante en el año 2017 fue el motivo de la elección del tema de las XV Jornadas de la Asociación de Teólogas Españolas (ATE), fruto de las cuales es este libro colectivo. Pero los estudios aquí ofrecidos se distinguen por su acercamiento a la reforma eclesial. Desde la comprensión de que la Iglesia es una, tome la forma que tome, y de que por ello todas las iglesias se deben un mutuo rendimiento de cuentas, este libro analiza y explora qué ha significado para las mujeres la acción reformadora de y en la Iglesia.
Lo hace con una mirada honesta, crítica y comprometida con tal mutualidad, una mirada que propone y avanza en un camino de reforma eclesial en el que todos, mujeres y hombres, protestantes y católicos, nos sintamos agentes responsables de construir la Iglesia que queremos.
Catalog of the exhibition titeled "1517-2017 Rescatando un tesoro protestante". It includes artic... more Catalog of the exhibition titeled "1517-2017 Rescatando un tesoro protestante". It includes articles depicting the state of Spanish protestantism from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries as well as several others focusing on the relation between protestantism and education.
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Lo hace con una mirada honesta, crítica y comprometida con tal mutualidad, una mirada que propone y avanza en un camino de reforma eclesial en el que todos, mujeres y hombres, protestantes y católicos, nos sintamos agentes responsables de construir la Iglesia que queremos.