This edited collection of essays explores the impact of Jesus within and beyond Christianity, including his many afterlives in literature and the arts, social justice and world religion. The term ‘afterlife’ is being used in the sense that Yvonne Sherwood did in her volume on Jonah: A biblical text and its afterlives: The survival of Jonah in western culture. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000.
The focus of the collection is on exploring the afterlives of Jesus in various cultural and religious contexts over the past 2,000 years and especially in the present global context.
These volumes are not an exercise in Christian apologetics, nor is it an interfaith project; except in the sense that many of the contributors will be from Christian context while a great many others will be from other religious and cultural contexts.
The essays offer the reader original work that is grounded in critical scholarship and/or reflective practice, but expressed in non-technical language so the information is accessible to educated non-specialists.
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Jesus in Global perspective 1: Historical Afterlives of Jesus
Preface to the Afterlives – Gregory C. Jenks
Introduction – Gregory C. Jenks
The Once and Future Jesus – Gregory C. Jenks
Jesus, Parables and the Kingdom of God – John Dominic Crossan
Discovering Jesus in the Psalms: Early Christian Reception of the Psalms as Messianic Texts – David J. Cohen
The Apocryphal Jesus – Kurt Anders Richardson
Jesus in Tertullian – Geoffrey D. Dunn
Jesus as the Logos: The Afterlife of Jesus in Ancient Philosophy – David Galston
Becoming Flesh – Peter Kline
Jesus Christ on Byzantine Coins – Peter E. Lewis
The Aryan Jesus – Jocelyn M. Kellam
Apocalypse Now and Then – James D. Tabor
Jesus, Individualism, and Mental Health – Michael L. Free
Jesus in Global Perspective 2: Interfaith Afterlives of Jesus
Introduction – Arthur J. Dewey
Contextuality as Incarnation – Robert M. Price
Jesus Christ in the Holy Qur’an and the Prophetic Traditions – Mustafa Abu Sway
Writing the Afterlives: From Jesus to the Vilna Gaon – Richard A. Freund†
The ‘Disappeared Jesus’ and the Emancipation of European Jewry – Lorraine J. Parkinson
Jesus and Contemporary Jewish Identity – Richard E. Sherwin
Jesus as a Yogi in Hinduism – Vishal Sharma
Ruist (Confucian) Receptions of Jesus in Late Imperial China – Ryan Pino & Bin Song
The Christology of Joseph Smith – A. Keith Thompson
Engaging Jesus in Secular Australia – David Merritt
Jesus and the Transforming Influence of Friendship – John H. W. Smith
In Celebration of a ‘Wild’ Faith: Jesus in the Australian Landscape – Rex A. E. Hunt
Jesus in Global Perspective 3: Cultural Afterlives of Jesus
Introduction – Val Webb
Jesus through Indigenous Australian Eyes – Glenn Loughrey
Jesus and Indigenous Australian Identity – Anne Pattel-Gray
Jesus of Kings Cross – Peter C. Catt
Radicalizing Jesus: An Indigenous Maori Anglican Woman – Jennifer L. Te Paa Daniel
Jesus through Pacific Eyes – Seforosa Carroll
Asian Faces of Jesus – Joseph N. Goh
A Post-Colonial Jesus: The Art of Emmanuel Garibay – Rod Pattenden
Jesus in Comedic Film – Jonathan Sargeant
Sexing Jesus: Controversies around Christological Erotic Corporealities in Latin America – Hugo Córdova Quero
Jesus through Women’s Eyes – Marian Free
Saying No to Jesus: Feminist Theology and the Christian Liberal Fantasy – Janice McRandal