Really enjoyed The Miracles of Jesus last night on BBC1 which I taped as it clashed with our gathering.I thought the dramatisations were really great and Rageeh Omaar's narration was very Tom Wright-esque I thought: lots of talk of how Jesus was acting in ways that only God could act etc. This was perhaps surprising given the fact that Omaar is a Muslim.
The question of whether or not Jesus thought of himself as in some sense divine and how that self-realisation developed was fascinating and very thought provoking.
I know it sounds daft but the dramatisations brought home to me again the fact that we follow a man who lived in many ways just like everyone else lived 2000 years ago; a man very much of his culture and time whose ways would be very strange to us now, but a man nevertheless who we believe, as Christians, was in some mysterious way God himself among us.
I know that sometimes I lose sight of that and end up with a Jesus who has somehow come loose from the world that he was a part of.
Anyway, if you've missed the show so far make sure you catch it next week when it focuses on the resurrection.
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Hah! I blogged on that programme too! Similar thoughts to you - was very impressed at how they brought across the human side of Jesus. Had a few annoyances though...
The 1st episode was a goodie, but I rushed home from Church for the second, only to find out that the place had been plunged into a i ighteningstrike-induced power cut. I hear there's a DVD being released towards the end of the year.
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