Alasdair MacIntyre says, "Consider the remarkable contrasts between the Jesus of whom we can know very little of Renan and his 20th century followers, the Jewish Jesus of Géza Vermes, the egalitarian peasant Jesus of J.D. Crossan, the eschatological Jesus of Schweitzer, and the Jesus who emerges from N.T. Wright's magisterial trilogy. In which Jesus are we to believe?" Additionally, where does that leave the thoughts of those who do not or cannot believe? Great intellectuals like Altizer and Zizek -- or even 'agnostics' like Bart Ehrman. These are but an exiguous portion of the great many who, across the expanse of two millennia, have had much to say about this one truly elusive human life. This Easter Monday episode reflects that persisting diversity as expressed within the universe of music.
Below is an oil painting by Georges Rouault called 'Christ and the Apostles', completed in 1938 and now currently a part of The Met's collection.
episode download: [forthcoming]
0:00:00 - psa: Noam Chomsky on community radio
0:00:25 - station id
0:00:31 - promo: cfrc twitter
0:00:43 - P.S. Eliot - 'Jesus Christ'
0:03:06 - Wilco - 'Jesus, Etc.'
0:06:56 - The Byrds - 'Jesus is Just Alright'
0:09:11 - John Fahey - 'In Christ There Is No East or West'
0:09:""' - talking on: jesus
0:11:56 - Pete Seeger - 'Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring' (Bach)
0:12:57 - Tim Eriksen - 'Garden Hymn'
0:15:26 - The Louvin Brothers - 'The Kneeling Drunkard's Plea'
0:18:20 - Gavin Bryars & Tom Waits - 'Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet'
0:22:18 - Neutral Milk Hotel - 'The King of Carrot Flowers (Parts Two & Three)'
0:25:25 - Kurt Vile - 'Jesus Fever'
0:29:10 - psa: caring campus project mental health survey
0:29:47 - promo: Below The Decks (radio show)
0:30:19 - psa: Loving Spoonful (local food security initiative)
0:31:04 - Leftover Crack - 'Jesus Has A Place For Me (Rock The 40 oz.)'
0:34:07 - Sky Ferreira - 'Omanko'
0:38:44 - "Jesus Christ." (the indie band) - 'Is This Really What You Want?'
0:43:41 - The Flaming Lips - 'Shine on Sweet Jesus'
0:48:09 - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - 'A Teenager In Love'
0:51:32 - Arvo Part - 'The Beatitudes'
0:51:""' - talking
0:54:27 - Spiritualized - 'Life Is A Problem'
0:58:29 - station id: Amy Goodman (of Democracy Now!)
0:58:44 - The Velvet Underground - 'Jesus'
1:02:10 - Teen Daze - 'Saviour'
1:06:08 - Das Racist - 'Nutmeg'
1:11:56 - Dom - 'Jesus'
1:14:00 - Pslaters - 'All Yeshua'
1:19:28 - Charles Gayle - 'Glory & Jesus'
'":"":55 - talking: the historical jesus, death of god theology
1:22:44 - Tom Waits - 'Chocolate Jesus'
1:26:42 - Wingnut Dishwashers Union - 'Jesus Does the Dishes'
"Nothing has been more revolutionary in New Testament scholarship than the unveiling of the original historical Jesus as an apocalyptic prophet... At no point is the language of Jesus more clearly original than in its primary centering upon the Kingdom of God, and just as Jesus was the first prophet to proclaim and enact the actual advent or dawning of the Kingdom of God, that is an advent that here and here alone in biblical language is an ultimate and eschatological enactment... The Jesus of Christian orthodoxy is surely not a revolutionary, or not as a truly human "son of man." But the Jesus of Christian heresy has commonly been a revolutionary, and the deeper the heresy, the deeper the apprehension of the revolutionary Jesus, and if a total Christian heresy has been realized only in full modernity, nowhere else is a vision of a revolutionary Jesus more fully or more totally at hand."
- Thomas J. J. Altizer
"Jesus did not make the family the central value of human life, but the solidarity of those deprived of their rights. The most important norms of the Moral Majority are not contained in Christian faith, as we can see from the many critical remarks against the family that appear in the gospels. It is characteristic of Christofascism that it cuts off all the roots that Christianity has in the Old Testament, in the Jewish Bible. No word about justice, no mention of the poor, whom God comes to aid, very little about guilt and suffering. No hope for the messianic reign. Hope is completely individualized and reduced to personal success. Jesus, cut loose from the Old Testament, becomes a sentimental figure. The empty repetition of his name works like a drug: it changes nothing and nobody. Therefore, since not everybody can be successful, beautiful, male, and rich, there have to be hate objects who can take the disappointment on themselves. Jesus, who suffered hunger and poverty, who practiced solidarity with the oppressed, has nothing to do with this religion."
- Dorothee Soelle
Further Info:
[1] 'What Jesus Did' by Garry Wills
[2] 'Why Jesus?' by Peter Rollins
[3] Historical Jesus
[4] Quests for the Historical Jesus
[5] Death of God Theology
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