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The Human Being: Jesus and the Enigma of the Son of the Man
by: Walter Wink

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 233
EAN: 9780800632625
ISBN: 0800632621
Label: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Manufacturer: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 376
Publication Date: November 01, 2001
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Sales Rank: 360571
Studio: Augsburg Fortress Publishers

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A 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.

The implications of this are profound, Wink argues. We are freed to go on the journey that Jesus charted rather than to worship the journey of Jesus. We can rescue Jesus from the baggage of christological beliefs added by the church. We are enabled to strip away the heavy accretion of dogma that installed Jesus as the second person of the trinity. Now he can be available to anyone seeking to realize the Human Being within. Jesus becomes uniquely a criterion of humanness. He shows us something of what it means to become human, but not enough to keep us from having to discover our true humanity ourselves. That means we are to be co-creators with God.

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- One of the few books that have fundamentally changed my thinking
The author, Walter Wink, correctly points out that "the quest for the historical Jesus" that has preoccupied New Testament scholarship for over 200 years has actually been a quest for the human Jesus. Wink takes Jesus' enigmatic term the Son of Man, literally the Son of the Man and very persuasively, in my view, argues that it is indeed both his designation of and his aspiration for himself which is of himself as "the fully human one" or, the politically correct, gender neutral "the human being." He was, in effect, designating himself as "The Man." No matter. The point is that, in the author's view, Jesus did not claim that he was the Messiah or Christ, still less that he was the Son of God. These were titles given to him by the early church. Wink's thesis implies that Jesus made no claim to being a one-time-only God Incarnate, but what and who we all may become by living our lives in complete faith in the goodness ... Read More

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- The Human Being
Excellent book for anyone interested in the picture of Jesus that emerges from careful reading of the Greek text and not from translations. It's a longish book and it requires attention, but it should prove rewarding for all Christians.

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- Profound and Brilliant
Surely one of the most perplexing phrases in the Gospels is Jesus' repeated reference to himself as "Son of Man." Let's face it, for most biblical scholars, the term is simply an embarrassment, and they work hard to explain it away. Inconsistent statements such as saying that Jesus is fully human as well as fully divine are used to try to explain it. Or, attempts are made to show that "Son of man" is some divine title. In both the ancient and modern church, the phrase is basically non-existent in hymns, prayers, and liturgies.
Wink researches all the references to the son of man he could locate: in the Old Testament, the New Testament, and in Hebrew literature. For example, he shows that the capitalization of "Son of Man" was added by the translators, to give the impression that "Son of Man" is a title. In fact, there is no capitalization at all in the Hebrew or Greek texts of the bible. In fact, "son ... Read More

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- The Systems Revolution and Walter Wink
I believe that if anyone can prepare the "modern" church for its critical next step into the future, it is Walter Wink. His development of the critical use of scientific theory mostly drawn from the "new" physics and the "new" biology, are extremely helpful in providing a guidepost into the integration of theology and science, using a philosophy of science integration.

The is one point that wish to state clearly. This series of texts is not about "your father's (or mother's) Jesus!" Wink demonstrates a Jesus that is dealing with issues of power and domination. It seems that little "theological reflection about the nature of the church" is present within the current psychological disposition of the American church. Wink provides a necessary corrective to this religious culture of psycho-babble.

It will be a difficult read. Keep a Bible handy.

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