John graduated from Saint Eunan's College, a boarding high school, in 1950.
He studied at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome for two years before returning to his Servite community to teach.
John graduated from Saint Eunan's College, a boarding high school, in 1950.
He studied at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome for two years before returning to his Servite community to teach.
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From myth to parable, Crossan identifies five types of stories. Among these types it is parable that subverts the world and undercuts the safe shelter we build. Using literary theory, philosophy, theology and biblical studies, he demonstrates the subversive power of the parable.
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1994
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The premier historical Jesus scholar joins a brilliant archaeologist to illuminate the life and teaching of Jesus against the background of his world. There have been phenomenal advances in the historical understanding of Jesus and his world and times, but also huge, lesser known advances in first-century Palestine archaeology that explain a great deal about Jesus, his followers, and his teachings. This is the first book that combines the two and it does it in a fresh, accessible way that will interest both biblical scholars and students and also the thousands of lay readers of Biblical Archaeology Review (150,000+ circulation), National Geographic, and other archaeology and ancient history books and magazines. Each chapter of the book focuses on a major modern archaeological or textual discovery and shows how that discovery opens a window onto a major feature of Jesus's life and teachings.
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2008
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John Dominic Crossan is widely regarded as the leading authority on the words and life of Jesus Christ. His classic national bestseller, Jesus, is a powerful and controversial portrait of a courageous revolutionary, philosopher, and political agitator who challenged the prevailing rules of the social order.
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Every Sunday, the Lord s Prayer echoes in churches around the world. It is an indisputable principle of Christian faith. It is the way Jesus taught his followers to pray and distills the most essential beliefs required of every one of the world s 2.5 billion Christians. In The Greatest Prayer, our foremost Jesus scholar explores this foundational prayer line by line for the richest and fullest understanding of a prayer every Christian knows by heart. An expert on the historical Jesus, Crossan provides just the right amount of history, scholarship, and detail for us to rediscover why this seemingly simple prayer sparked a revolution.
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In this national bestseller, John Dominic Crossan, the world's leading expert on the historical Jesus, reveals how Christianity emerged in the period following Jesus' death. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Crossan shines new light on the theological and cultural contexts from which the Christian church arose. He argues powerfully that Christianity would have happened with or without Paul and contends that Jesus' "resurrection" meant something vastly different for his early followers than it does for many traditional Christians today - what mattered was Christina origins finally illuminates the mysterious period that set Western religious history in its decisive course.
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John Dominic Crossan was born on February 17, 1934 in Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland. Though his father was a banker, Crossan was steeped in the rural Irish life, which he experienced through frequent visits to the home of his paternal grandparents.
John graduated from Saint Eunan's College, a boarding high school, in 1950. He was also trained at Stonebridge Seminary, Lake Bluff, Illinois. He studied at St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, and received a doctorate in theology in 1959. He then studied at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome for two years before returning to his Servite community to teach. In 1965 he began study at the École Biblique et Archaéologie Française de Jérusalem (French Institute of Bible and Archaeology, Jerusalem), which was run by the Dominican order. Two years later he returned to Chicago to join the faculty of the Chicago Catholic Theological Union.
In 1950, Crossan moved to Chicago, where he joined the Servites, a Roman Catholic monastic order. Ordained a priest in 1957, he returned to Ireland.
In 1969 John resigned from the Servite priesthood, citing a longing for academic freedom and his intention to marry. He soon joined the faculty of religious studies at Chicago’s DePaul University, where he taught until his retirement in 1995. After his retirement, Crossan continued to write and lecture.
Crossan’s early works focused on the parables of Jesus in the New Testament. Crossan’s books prompted scholars to study extrabiblical texts that might have had relevance to the Apostles and to early Christian communities.
To further this undertaking, in 1985 Crossan and the scholar Robert Funk cofounded the Jesus Seminar, a group of biblical scholars who generally rejected traditional views of Jesus’ life and ministry and emphasized the years immediately following his death. Crossan contributed to the seminar’s own version of the Gospels, The Five Gospels: The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus: New Translation and Commentary (1993), which presented what the seminar believed were the most historically accurate statements in the three Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, and Luke), the Gospel According to John, and the Gospel of Thomas.
Crossan is a major scholar in contemporary historical Jesus research. His most famous and controversial work, The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant (1991), interpreted the figure of Jesus in his historical context as well as through the Gospels. That book and its 1994 successor, Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography, made Crossan one of the key figures in a new version of an old controversy concerning how best to distinguish the Jesus of history from the Jesus of the Gospels.
(In this national bestseller, John Dominic Crossan, the wo...)
(The premier historical Jesus scholar joins a brilliant ar...)
2002(John Dominic Crossan is widely regarded as the leading au...)
2009(Every Sunday, the Lord s Prayer echoes in churches around...)
(From myth to parable, Crossan identifies five types of st...)
1994Crossan still identifies as a Christian but no longer belongs to an organized Christian denomination.
Crossan believed that the divinity of Jesus “must be taken metaphorically.” He held that the traditional eschatological interpretation of Jesus’ life, which stressed his Second Coming, was a much later theological corruption of the historical facts, which were worthy of study and emulation in themselves. According to Crossan, theologians and historians also needed to explore the historical context in which the New Testament texts arose, generations before there was any notion of a Christian canon (a set of recognized scripture).
In 1969 John married Margaret Deganais, a professor at Loyola University Chicago. She died in 1983 due to a heart attack. In 1986, Crossan married Sarah Sexton, a social worker with two grown children.
