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Sophiologists interpreted Jesus' homelessness as the homelessness of Sophia. [9] New Monastic writer Shane Claiborne refers to Jesus as "the homeless rabbi". [10] Catholic theologian Rosemary Radford Ruether discusses Jesus' homelessness in relation to the concept of kenosis, the voluntary renunciation of power in order to submit to the will of God. [11]
Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, the authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, loved the episode. They described it as "A brilliant episode, underlining everything that The Simpsons is about. Homer hates church, Marge wants the kids to see Homer as an example, and everyone pulls together in ...
Although the girl was dead (see v. 18), Jesus said that she was sleeping. Lapide gives a number of reasons for this response: 1) To God and to Jesus, all things live, and so she was not dead, and would be raised again at the Judgment Day. Therefore the dead are regularly said to be sleeping in Scripture.
Some men came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by four of them. Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus by digging through it and then lowered the mat the man was lying on. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man, "Son, your sins are forgiven."
Jesus was manifestly pointing to a defect in their spiritual principles. Clowes further commented that by that last question Jesus was manifestly instructing his disciples, and through them all future generations of mankind, that fear is the constant result of the want of Heavenly principles in the human mind.
The transfer of Jesus' body by the local authorities into the hands of a rich influential follower and execution of a quick burial lend support to the swoon hypothesis, allowing a swooned Jesus to be removed from the cross, quickly hidden away from public scrutiny with room to recover from his ordeal in an above ground burial chamber on private ...
Homeless Jesus, also known as Jesus the Homeless (French: Jésus le sans-abri), is a bronze sculpture by Timothy Schmalz depicting Jesus as a homeless person, sleeping on a park bench. The original sculpture was installed in 2013 at Regis College , a theological college federated with the University of Toronto .
Sleeping Joseph in San Miguel Church, Manila A statue of the "Sleeping Joseph" is a devotional object found in some Catholic homes. It was popularised by Pope Francis , who said during a 2015 visit to the Philippines , "when I have a problem, a difficulty, I write a piece of paper and put it under St. Joseph, because he dreams about it!