This article investigates the origins and development of the earliest Jesus movements within the context of persistent conflict between the Judean and Galilean peasantry and their Jerusalem and Roman rulers. It explores the prominence of popular prophetic and messianic movements and shows how the earliest movements that formed in response to Jesus’ mission exhibit similar features and patterns....

Through review of scholarly literature, this study explores the leadership of the Scriptural Jesus and offers preliminary propositions on the intra-individual processes effectively used by him. These propositions may be helpful in directing future empirical studies in the field of leadership useful for building toward an integrated, multilevel theory of effective leadership. This paper explores...

Jesus of Nazareth underwent Jewish and Roman trials, was flogged, and was sentenced to death by crucifixion. The scourging produced deep stripelike lacerations and appreciable blood loss, and it probably set the stage for hypovolemic shock, as evidenced by the fact that Jesus was too weakened to carry the crossbar (patibulum) to Golgotha. At the site of crucifixion, his wrists were nailed to th...

In any attempt to understand the teaching of Jesus as recorded in the Synoptic Gospels, a consideration of the parables must take an important place. This is demonstrated not merely by the plethora of critical study and popular exposition to which the parables have given rise, but above all by the place which the parables occupy in the Synoptic tradition. According to A. M. Hunter roughly one t...

Organizational structure is experiencing an increase in the use of small groups and teams as solutions to strategic concerns. The issue of succession planning within a group or organization is vital to a successful strategy. In addition, servant leadership is experiencing a resurgence of interest in organizations and in leadership research. However, servant leadership in the succession process ...

The concept that “fullness” is to be found in Jesus Christ has been invoked to support the uniqueness of Jesus, including in the context of world religions. Yet the metaphorical sense of fullness is amenable to a variety of interpretations. Is this uniqueness the logical consequence of Christian faith, or an over-reliance on what amounts to a spatial metaphor? Are the uniqueness and primacy of ...

“All humanists agree that religion is not based on reason” [1a]. This statement, in many different forms, has been popularized for hundreds of years. A major purpose for the 1978-1979 modeling procedures introduced into theology is to establish that all such statements are false. Jesus Christ is Scripturally described as the “great God and Saviour,” “the only-begotten God,” “the image of the in...

Asteady debate over the meaning of the death of Jesus in Luke-Acts runs through the heart of scholarly attention to Lukan theology. Alongside the growing recognition of Luke as a theologian in his own right, the uniqueness of his interpretation of the cross over against other biblical authors has been regularly emphasized. In this regard, it has become commonplace to affirm Luke attaches no dir...

*Pulmonary Section, Department of Medicine, University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico; †Pulmonary Consultant; ‡Doctoral Program – Clinical and Translational Science, Institute for Clinical Research Education, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, United States of America; §Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, Unive...

This book is a masterful analysis of Jesus’ radical ideas regarding managers and management. These ideas, when understood in the context of the Greco-Roman management system, present transformational possibilities for 21st century managers. A change model that utilizes Jesus’ ideas and his discussion about the Kingdom of God frames the book.