Prosecuting Jesus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prosecuting Jesus write by Mark Osler. This book was released on 2016-08-12. Prosecuting Jesus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Who is Jesus? Christians have been arguing about the answer to that question since there have been Christians, and it seems unlikely that they're going to agree on an answer anytime soon. Mark Osler, always a bit uncomfortable in church, was never able to find a Jesus that seemed real to himâ€"until he put Jesus on trial. Drawing on his training as a federal prosecutor and professor of law, he and a group of friends staged the trial of Jesus for their church, as though it were happening in the modern American criminal justice system. The event was so powerful that before long Osler received invitations to take it on the road. Each time he served as Christ's prosecutor, the story of Jesus opened up to him a bit more. Prosecuting Jesus follows Osler in this extraordinary journey of discovering himself by discovering Jesus. Juxtaposing things we rarely put together, like the passion of Christ and our ideas about capital punishment, Osler explores an active engagement between Jesus and our contemporary law and culture.
Jesus on Death Row
Jesus on Death Row - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jesus on Death Row write by Prof. Mark Osler. This book was released on 2010-09-01. Jesus on Death Row available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What does the most infamous criminal proceeding in history--the trial of Jesus of Nazareth--have to tell us about capital punishment in the United States? Jesus Christ was a prisoner on death row. If that statement surprises you, consider this fact: of all the roles that Jesus played--preacher, teacher, healer, mentor, friend--none features as prominently in the gospels as this one, a criminal indicted and convicted of a capital offense. Now consider another fact: the arrest, trial, and execution of Jesus bear remarkable similarities to the American criminal justice system, especially in capital cases. From the use of paid informants to the conflicting testimony of witnesses to the denial of clemency, the elements in the story of Jesus' trial mirror the most common components in capital cases today. Finally, consider a question: How might we see capital punishment in this country differently if we realized that the system used to condemn the Son of God to death so closely resembles the system we use in capital cases today? Should the experience of Jesus' trial, conviction, and execution give us pause as we take similar steps to place individuals on death row today? These are the questions posed by this surprising, challenging, and enlightening book
The Case against Christ
The Case against Christ - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Case against Christ write by George G. R. Dekle Sr.. This book was released on 2011-07-12. The Case against Christ available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Some two thousand years ago, in a small province of the Roman Empire, an obscure Roman governor ordered the execution of a peasant leader. It went virtually unnoticed at the time. No official report of the event has survived, and we would have no memory at all of it except for the efforts of a handful of followers of the condemned man. Those followers who kept that memory alive changed the course of history, and the results of their efforts continue to reverberate to this day. Conventional interpretation says that the execution of Jesus of Nazareth came on the heels of a series illegal trials before a number of different tribunals, and at the culmination of that series of trials a moral coward by the name of Pontius Pilate ordered Jesus’ execution despite being satisfied that he was innocent. Revisionist interpretation says that there was no trial at all, that Pilate simply executed Jesus because he was a nuisance, and that Jesus’ followers invented the story of his execution as a means of shifting the blame from the Roman government to a group of people whom they despised – the Jews. Are the Gospels good history or bad propaganda? Does a fair reading of the Gospel accounts support either the conventional or the revisionist interpretation of the trial of Jesus? Who, if anyone, should shoulder the blame for the crucifixion of Jesus? The Case against Christ seeks to answer these questions by treating the matter as a forensic death investigation and answering the questions as they might be answered by a prosecutor attempting to determine who should be held criminally responsible for the death of Jesus.
The Prosecution of Jesus
The Prosecution of Jesus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Prosecution of Jesus write by Richard Wellington Husband. This book was released on 1916. The Prosecution of Jesus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Christian Science Sentinel
Christian Science Sentinel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Christian Science Sentinel write by . This book was released on 1898. Christian Science Sentinel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
