Is anyone here familiar with Maria Lopez Vigil's 3 volume work Just Jesus?

[bobbieinok]

From what I've found about it, it puts a human face on a brown-skinned Jesus and a feminine face on God.

It's apparently in the Liberation Theology approach to Christianity.

It sounds very interesting.

[Voltaire2]

1. Here's a liberating approach to christianity: it is ancient paternalistic bullshit.

let's grow up and face the fact that we are all going to die, this life, this world is all we have, and that there is no sky being, male or female or other-gendered that is gonna save us.

Now let's get to work and make this world, here and now, as good as it can be for all living things.

[bobbieinok]

3. It's the loudest, but US Evangelical Christianity is not the only interpretation of Christianity

For a different interpretation read slacktivist at patheos, bilgrimage.blogspot.com. or John Pavlovitz for Christians who believe that as Christian's they are to work to feed the hungry, welcome the stranger, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless--all set forth in the story of the separation of the sheep and the goats at the end of Matthew.

There is nothing there demanding adherence to 'right belief formulas' or anti-abortion or anti-homosexuality or anti-immigration or anti-evolution or anti-climate change. Or belief in white supremacy. All views that Evangelicals have made the definition of what it means to be a Christian. All that is considered there at the end of Matthew in evaluating a Christian's life are actions that improve the lives of individual people.

[Major Nikon]

7. Most Evangelicals will say they are for all those good things you mentioned

And it’s not just the evangelicals who preach those bad things you mentioned from the pulpit.

Meanwhile none of those good things require religion and do just fine without it yet it’s hard to imagine all the bad finding so much traction without religion.

[Act_of_Reparation]

10. You're right.

There are literally dozens of Christians working very, very hard to rehabilitate anachronistic Bronze Age codswallop by creative means of posthoc justifications. Meanwhile, there are thousands trying to take us back to the glory days of a hinterland kingdom in the ancient Near East. The problem with creative reinterpretation is that Bronze Age nonsense is still there, and anyone not deliberately trying to shoehorn this crap into a preexisting liberal worldview will invariably arrive at a different conclusion.

Because religion is unreliable.

[Major Nikon]

2. Not at all familiar with it

Just going from your description it sounds like another attempt to view Christianity through a new pair of rose colored glasses.

[bobbieinok]

4. From what I've read about the books, she breaks significantly from strict Catholic teachings

[Major Nikon]

6. A fellow by the name of Martin Luther did also

Then another fellow named Joseph Smith did so again. A guy by the name of L Ron Hubbard went a completely different direction.

[guillaumeb]

5. Thank you for the suggestion.

I will look it up.

Recommended.

[Pendrench]

8. Hi bobbieinok - I am not familiar with this author, but based on your comments I

think I will try to find out more.

Thank you for posting.

Wishing you well and peace

Tim

[bobbieinok]

9. Thank you. And wishing you the same.