Johnson: Living Jesus
“Precisely because the New Testament’s language about the living Jesus includes ‘living on’ language about his memory, teaching, moral example, and name it is important to recognize that these expressions are not to be identified with the central conviction concerning Jesus, which has to do not with the persistence of some aspect of his past, but above all with his personal presence in the present. The conviction of the New Testament writers is that he is somehow present among them, not simply that they are relating themselves to a figure of the past.” (Luke Timothy Johnson, Living Jesus, 14).
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Posted on October 22, 2011, in Theology and tagged Gospel, Jesus, Luke Timothy Johnson, New Testament, Resurrection. Bookmark the permalink. 1 Comment.
Nice experpt, but would leave some wondering why or how was Christ present with them…What the world doesn’t see (and some Christians) is that we can live with the Holy Spirit present with us: teaching, loving, making us laugh, and enlarging our heart reminding us daily to make more room for His presence. He was promised to us by Jesus Himself! It is such a difficult thing to express to someone who has never encountered the Holy Spirit. He is there for the person who reads through the Book of John and believes the words. It is a blessed person who seeks the face of God!