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The Person of Christ - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Jesus touches a woman who has been bleeding for 12 years and stops the bleeding- according to Torah (Leviticus 15:19-28) touching a woman who is having her period would automatically make them unclean
        
        “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.” (Mark 5:34)
        Jesus chooses to see her action as an action of faith- challenged deep-rooted prejudices and attitudes towards women at the time
    - - Parable of the Good Samaritan- a man is attacked by robbers and is ignored by both a Jewish priest and a Levite (perhaps fearing they would become unclean) however a Samaritan comes and helps the man, tending to his injuries and paying for him to stay in an inn
        
        The Samaritan followed the central commandment of the law “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbour as yourself” (Luke 10:28)
        By using the Samaritan as an example of good moral behaviour Jesus touches on the prejudices of his audience- liberation isn’t just about political revolution but also shifting consciousness
  - - - Gustavo Gutierrez
        
        Peruvian Catholic priest, considered to be the father of liberation theology, believed Jesus was engaged in world affairs
        
        Jesus' historically showed a 'preferential option for the poor'- Jesus had a bias towards the poor and it is the duty of Christians and the privileged to side with the oppressed
      - Camilo Torres
        
        Colombian Catholic priest who joined a guerrillero group which resisted the government
        -'if Jesus was alive today, He would be a guerrillero
      - Leonardo Boff
        
        Brazilian Catholic priest- 'eternal destiny of human beings will be measured by how much or how little solidarity we have displayed with the hungry, the thirsty, the naked and the oppressed'
    - - Jesus thought rich should give to charity- not necessarily address causes of economic oppression
      - Carl Kloppenburg- Catholic Brazilian Bishop who argued that fusing theology and political action diminishes the spiritual message of Christianity
      - Matthew 20:21 - disconnect between political society and living for God
      - Jesus was an advocated for peace- Matthew 26:52