The Personality of Jesus as it Affected His Mission in Luke

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dc.contributor.authorBlay, Joseph
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-06T07:50:06Z
dc.date.available2019-02-06T07:50:06Z
dc.date.issued1998-02
dc.description.abstractOne characteristic of final year students is that they like discussing topics of their "Long Essays". Having heard my topic, a friend retorted: "So you are one of those examining the mind of Jesus?" I do not dispute the fact that "Personality" is one of the major branches of Psychology, yet I believe "Personality" encompasses more than the mind of a person. It is the whole components of what makes a person who he/she is — his/her convictions, beliefs, principles, his/her words and actions. We perceive who a person is through the way he/she projects him/herself — words and deeds, silence and utterances — towards others, in fact, his/her being in the world. The purpose of this work is to discover what really is the motivating factor for the mission of Jesus. There is the temptation, after a cursory skim through this work, to think that Jesus is a humanist or a mere philanthropist. The fact is that one cannot be a good Christian without being human. The difference is that whereas the humanist acknowledges and tries to absolutise the human worth, Jesus gives priority to the human person as the means for serving God. The principle for Jesus' unique personality in Luke is that we cannot reach God except through the ladder of humanity. Thus, humanity becomes a necessary means to God but never an absolute end in itself. No other gospel could have helped us in our research than that of Luke. He excels in placing the human person as the focal point of the gospel. In Luke, the inaugural message is not the Beatitudes but a discourse on liberation and restoration of human dignity. Luke shows no discrimination among people of different nations. People from north, south, east and west sit with Abraham in the Kingdom of God (13:29). Samaria is not out of the mission map (9:1-4; 10:1-12; cf.Mt. 10:5); nor does Jesus call Gentiles dogs. In chapter one we survey the broad-base programme of Jesus to discover what it entails. Chapter two breaks it down for us to see how Jesus carries this out in his own practical life situation. In chapter three, Jesus reinforces the witness of his life with his teaching, still emphasising the point that one cannot see God any more than he fails to see the image of God in his or her neighbour. Our approach throughout this paper is to give some exegetical expositions; we further show Jesus' attitude in contravention to the status quo, and offer some comparisons with parallel passages from the gospels of Mark and Matthew. The last part of each chapter is a reflection on mission activity today vis-à-vis the challenges Jesus' personality poses to us.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12342/536
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTangaza University Collegeen_US
dc.subjectJesusen_US
dc.subjectMissionen_US
dc.subjectPersonalityen_US
dc.subjectSpirit of the Lorden_US
dc.subjectParableen_US
dc.titleThe Personality of Jesus as it Affected His Mission in Lukeen_US
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