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+Woodbrooke on the road: 
+Tim Ashworth
+2020-02-22
+
 _Jesus the Jew_ (1977)
 A shift in viewpoint motivated in part by the need to acknowledge the
 Holocaust
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 28:17 "Some doubted" -- TA: the experience was in some way not
 objective---powerful, but not quite unequivocal.
+
+*Luke and Acts*
+
+[Luke actually, possibly/probably, travelled with Paul at some point,
+ his narrative in Acts wrt Paul is thus quite 'true']
+
+A 'good' historian, i.e. tells a story, with a shape.  Causal
+connections, signalled with delta-epsilon-iota "it is/was necessary".
+Jerusalem->Jerusalem;Jerusalem->Rome
+
+List of Jesus's antecedants begins with Adam, this story is for
+everyone (c.f. Matthew where it begins with Abraham, a story for the Jews)
+
+He uses 'old' language for the birth narrative, universal, but rooted
+in Jerusalem and reaching back into Jewish history.
+
+But not too explicit about Gentile inclusion in the Gospel.
+
+The Spirit plays a central role, of people (in Acts) being guided.
+
+Luke's Jesus has a particular concern for the marginalised,
+both in material and other ways (e.g. tax collectors, centurions) 
+The world turned upside-down, things are not as you think they are.
+
+Home of the parables.
+
+Pentecost: Something really extraordinary happened...
+
+TA: The call to "go out to the whole world" is not [much?] Jesus's
+project, starts with 'Saul' in Acts 13:2.  The Great Commission is
+Matthew (28:16–20) pushing stuff from Acts back into the Gospel
+narrative
+
+Working out the relationship, for the early Church, between '[the risen]
+Christ' and 'the Holy Spirit' is tricky.
+
+*John*
+
+Not so much a Gentile gospel, but a Jewish Christian one with a
+significant well-established graeco-jewish background.
+
+An embattled community, trying to come to terms (temporal and
+spiritual) with a surrounding antagonism, trying to define/protect a
+boundary.  By John's time (year 90) they were, in places, being
+excluded from synagogues.
+
+In John Jesus speaks of himself, self-describing as special.
+
+John puts words in Jesus's mouth, truly because the Spirit (of Truth)
+has spoken them to/through the community.
+
+Incarnation is everywhere in John.  And conflict with Christians who
+didn't go that far [like many of us today].
+
+20:26-29 "not seen and yet ... believe" is about John's own community.
+C.f. "Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone".
+
+Passion here is coming out of powerful (shared?) spiritual experience.