Contents
Acknowledgments 00
Introduction 00
Chapter I. Consider Participation
Participation as Knowing, Feeling, and Willing 00
Participation in the New Testament 00
Characteristics of Participation: Between Familiarity and Strangeness 00
The Burning Bush 00
The Burning Heart 00
Characteristics of Participation: Faith, Hope, and Love 00
Characteristics of Participation: Reason, Imagination, Language, Affection, Willing 00
Geography, Society, and History 00
Three Forms of Participating in Jesus 00
Supplement 00
Chapter II. Jesus, His Companions, and Their Movement: The Engendering Experience and the Bible
Participation and Interpretation 00
The Bible as Window 00
On Not Bypassing the Gospel Form 00
Originary Genres and Engendering Experiences 00
Abstract, Portrait, and Photo 00
The Jesus Christ of History, His Companions, and Their Movement 00
Chronology and Geography 00
The Humane and Transcendental Dimensions 00
(1) Challenges from Matthew, Mark, and Luke 00
(1.1) Beginning with the Synoptics 00
(1.2) The Alternative Community of God's Reign 00
(1.3) Inclusiveness and Divine Personalism 00
(1.4) The Alternative Community's Temporal and Geographical Dimensions 00
(1.5) The Paschal Shape of the Gospel Stories 00
(2) Challenges from John 00
(3) God, Community, and Jesus: A Glance Back 00
Supplement 00
Chapter III. Affection, Action, and Thought in the Advancing Jesus Movement
Groups in Participation 00
Individuals in Participation 00
Common Participation 00
The Conspiracy of the Three Types of Participation 00
Supplement 00
Chapter IV. Not Afraid to Be Partners: Challenges and Hopes
Soul, Self, Subject, or Heart? 00
Soul 00
Self 00
Subject 00
Heart 00
Society, Community, and Institution 00
Representative Acutely Social Tensions 00
Jesus' Alternative Community 00
The Cross-Cultural Challenge and Mystical Tolerance 00
World 00
A Soteriological Transition 00
The Divine Ground 00
Evil, Sin, Salvation, and Trinity 00
The Trinity and the Other 00
The Trinity, Language, and Women 00
Supplement 00
Reprise
Considering Participation 00
Jesus and the Gospel Movement in the New Testament 00
The Advancing Jesus Movement 00
Not Afraid To Be Partners: Emerging Challenges and Hopes 00
Bibliography 00
Index 00