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  • Paperback: 372 pages
  • Publisher: Augsburg Books; First Edition edition (November 1, 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0800632621
  • ISBN-13: 978-0800632625
  • Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.8 x 9 inches
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4.0 out of 5 starsWill the Real Jesus Please Stand Up?
By Lori Lambert on February 26, 2002
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Many will be delighted by the portrayal of Jesus that Walter Wink presents here. Others, however, who rely largely on dogma as their primary source for understanding who Jesus was and is, will undoubtedly experience an initial jolt by this book, but one, I think, that is potentially freeing and life transforming.
The book is refreshing, moving, clear, intelligible and well organized throughout. Perhaps one of the most important comments that can be made about this text is that it provides the reader with a perspective on Jesus which is not only believable, but meaningful. Without sacrificing the importance of Jesus, Wink presents us with an emerging Christology from below that he grounds in Jesus' own self understanding as gleaned largely through the Gospel accounts of his life, teaching and ministry.
Wink masterfully develops his thought by mining the Hebrew and New Testament scriptures taking as his central theme and starting point the numerous "son of the man/human being" sayings throughout the scriptures. As noted above, he begins with Ezekiel and moves on to Genesis which, as the author notes, was written after Ezekiel. He continues on with Daniel, the Gospels and concludes with pertinent extra biblical texts of the First Century CE. In the end we are left with an image of Jesus as one who fully realized his humanity and thus the goal of life as God intended.
Using a historical critical method and a critique of domination as his critical lens, Wink recovers emphases within the scriptures that have been lost in the Christian tradition due to the traditions tendency to accommodate and interpret the gospels in light of structures of domination.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsDemanding Read, recommended for ministers...
By fdoamerica on August 8, 2002
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"God is Human" Walter Wink so believes. In `The Human Being', Wink redefines divinity, not as godlike, but as fully human, and calls us to become like God - actualized humans. "We are called not to become what we are not - divine - but to become what we are: human."
This book is an authoritative commentary on the words, "son of man" and "the son of the man" an expression found throughout the Bible and an expression that Jesus used almost exclusively to describe himself. The Hebrew phrase simply means "a human being." For Wink, Jesus came to teach us, to call us, to be truly human. A task that Wink feels we have failed at miserably.
"We are only fragmentarily human, fleetingly human, brokenly human. We see glimpses of our humanness . . but we have not yet arrived at true humanness." He goes on to say, "we are incapable of becoming human by ourselves. We scarcely know what humanness is, but we know well what inhumanity is."
I found the most interesting and engaging chapter 'Feuerbach's Challenge', where Wink agrees with Ludwig Feuerbach, the 19th Century German Philosopher, that God is the merely the projection of human values and human nature. He turns this around to support his thesis that the projection of our best
qualities and powers into Godhead, the emptying of ourselves into
transcendence is what God wants. "We are projections of God, functions of God, and that God is a function, a projection of us. Consequently, our perceptions of God are projections, as Feuerbach thought."
I was disappointed that Wink's focus is on us becoming `truly human', yet he only gives one and a half pages to discussing the definition of the `truly human'. Scant space when you consider this is the core of his thesis.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsProfound and Brilliant
By Amazon Customer on July 9, 2005
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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 of" is a Hebrew idiom (usually appearing as "ben `adam") that means "member of a class," and Wink pulls many examples from the bible itself, examples that would not be obvious unless you return to the Hebrew text (or a literal translation, because the idioms are not translated as "son of," but as "member of," or the translation simply drops "son of " and just leaves the group name.) One example is in Genesis 18:7, which for example NIV translates as "Then he ran to the herd and selected a choice, tender calf ..." but Young's Literal Translation is "and Abraham ran unto the herd, and taketh a son of the herd, ..."
The exception to this translation of "son of," Wink points out, is when Jesus refers to himself as "son of man.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsSlow going now--but I will reevaluate after I've finished the book.

This is a temporary rating. I am finding it slow going and I am really impressed by other studies of Biblical and early Christian literature by the author. Read more

Published 4 months ago by JAN EDWARD GARRETT
4.0 out of 5 starsNot nearly as easy to read as his powerful book

This is a dense academic book. Wink seems to be writing for serious Bible scholars here. Not nearly as easy to read as his powerful book: The Powers that Be. Read more

Published 18 months ago by David G. Fitz
4.0 out of 5 starsFour Stars

Great but tough sledding.

Published 20 months ago by Rev. Doanld Marxhausen
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Excellent exposition on Jesus as "the human being/son of man."

Published 23 months ago by Mtsscholar
1.0 out of 5 starsThe title "Son of Man" is used of a divine personage in the book of...

The title Jesus gave Himself, more frequently than any other, was "son of man", a term that is used about 86 times in the Gospels, most commonly in the Gospel of Matthew. Read more

Published on March 29, 2012 by Cab98
5.0 out of 5 starsThe Authentic Jesus

"The Human Being", the great biblical scholar Walter Wink's unprecedented and compellingly creative work on Jesus, contains the most definitive statement on who Jesus was and what... Read more

Published on July 30, 2010 by Rodney Noel Saunders
5.0 out of 5 starsOne 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... Read more

Published on March 24, 2007 by T. Alan Parry
5.0 out of 5 starsThe 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. Read more

Published on October 10, 2005 by Ignacio Gotz
5.0 out of 5 starsThe 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. Read more

Published on May 17, 2004 by Edward W. Rogosky
1.0 out of 5 starsHocus Pocus meets Hypocricy

I am continually amazed at the idiocy that is mistaken for scholarship. Winks latest proffering in search of the "human" might have benefited from a consistant use of reason - a... Read more

Published on January 20, 2003 by G. Turner

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