The Human Being: Jesus and the Enigma of the Son of the ManA thorny historical issue handled with artistry and imagination The epithet "the son of the man" (or "the Human Being") in the Gospels has been a highly debated topic. Wink uses this phrase to explore not only early Christology but the anthropology articulated in the Gospels. Jesus apparently avoided designations such as Messiah, Son of God, or God, though these titles were given by his disciples after his death and resurrection. But Jesus is repeatedly depicted as using the obscure expression "the Human Being" as virtually his only form of self- reference. Wink explores how Jesus' self-referential phrase came to be universalized as the "Human Being" or "Truly Human One." The Human Being is a catalytic agent for transformation, providing the form and lure and hunger to become who we were meant to be, or more properly perhaps, to become who we truly are. |
Contents
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The Original Impulse of Jesus | 5 |
THE HUMAN BEING IN THE QUEST FOR THE HISTORICAL JESUS | 7 |
B The Myth of God Incarnate versus the Myth of the Human Jesus | 9 |
C The Myth of History | 12 |
DJesus Original Impulse | 13 |
The Anthropic Revelation The Human Being | 17 |
THE ENIGMA OF THE SON OF THE MAN | 19 |
THE HUMAN BEING CATALYST OF HUMAN TRANSFORMATION | 151 |
A Ascension | 152 |
B Into an Archetypal Image | 154 |
THE HUMAN BEING APOCALYPTIC VERSUS ESCHATOLOGY | 158 |
B Was Jesus on Apocalypticism | 161 |
APOCALYPTIC 1 THE HUMAN BEING COMES | 166 |
2427 par | 167 |
23 and 1628 | 171 |
A The Human Being in Ezehiel | 22 |
B Ezekiels Vision | 25 |
FEUERBACHS CHALLENGE | 35 |
A Evaluating Feuerbach | 36 |
B On Anthropomorphism | 41 |
C Me Are the Seer and the Seen | 45 |
D From Feuerbach to Berdyayev | 47 |
OTHER BIBLICAL AND EXTRABIBLICAL REFERENCES TO THE HUMAN BEING UP TO 100 CE | 50 |
CI Enoch 14 | 51 |
E Ezekiel the Tragedian | 54 |
F The Dead Sea Scrolls | 55 |
H 4 Ezra | 59 |
J Conclusion | 61 |
The Human Being PreEaster Sayings | 63 |
JESUS AND THE HUMAN BEING | 67 |
B The Healing of the Parolytic | 74 |
C Foxes Hove Dens | 80 |
D Blasphemy against the Human Being | 83 |
E A Glutton and a Drunkard | 86 |
F The Human Being Refuses Signs40 | 90 |
G The Human Being | 92 |
H The Human Being Seeks and Saves the Lost | 97 |
I The Human Being Must Suffer | 98 |
J And Be Killed | 104 |
K Conclusion | 111 |
JESUS AND THE MESSIANIC HOPE | 113 |
A Peters Obsession | 116 |
B Johns Question to Jesus | 118 |
C Exorcising by the Finger of God | 119 |
E Plucking Groin on the Sabbath | 120 |
G The Rich Fool | 121 |
H Jesus Temptation | 122 |
PROJECTION AND THE MESSIANIC HOPE | 128 |
A Breaking Messianic Projections | 132 |
B Incarnating God | 138 |
Shatterer of Projections | 140 |
D Projection and Inflation | 145 |
The Human Being PostEaster Sailings | 149 |
24 Matt 2427 | 172 |
8 | 173 |
APOCALYPTIC 2 THE HUMAN BEING JUDGES | 177 |
A Acknowledging the Human Being | 181 |
B Judging the Twelve Tribes | 183 |
D The Parable of the Wheat and the Weeds | 186 |
APOCALYPTIC 3 The Future of the Human Being | 188 |
A The Eclipse of the Human Being | 189 |
B The Recovery of the Human Being | 191 |
THE HUMAN BEING OF JOHN | 198 |
B Exaltation through Execution | 203 |
THE HUMAN BEING IN LETTERS ASCRIBED TO PAUL | 207 |
A The Inner Anthropos | 208 |
B The Body of Christ | 209 |
C In Christ | 210 |
The Human Being in Jewish Mysticism and Gnosticism | 213 |
THE HUMAN BEING IN JEWISH MYSTICISM | 215 |
A God as Human in Jewish Mysticism | 216 |
B EnochMetalron and the Human Being in Jewish Mysticism | 224 |
C Ascended Humans in Jewish Mysticism | 225 |
D Conclusion | 229 |
THE HUMAN BEING IN GNOSTICISM | 231 |
A The Human Being in the Nag Hammadi Library | 233 |
B The Orthodox Theologians Reports about the Gnostics | 241 |
C The Human Being in Poimandres | 244 |
D Conclusion | 245 |
Results and Conclusions | 249 |
B Will the Real Human Being Please Stand Up? | 251 |
C The Human Being | 257 |
Has There a Primal Man Myth? | 261 |
Philo on the Archetypes | 264 |
Ezekiels Influence on Jesus | 267 |
Glossary | 270 |
Notes | 272 |
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