Ways of Christ

^Contents:

Part 1: the chapters concerning the steps in the Gospels:
It is recommended to read it in its biblical sequence). There are also complete versions for download and print.

1.  INTRODUCTION into the purpose and use of this text, important for understanding the text
2.  "In the Beginning was the word (Greek: logos) …and the word became flesh"
3.  Jesus of Nazareth: his birth
4.  Is there anything significant to be found in the years of Jesus’ youth?
5.  A comment concerning the quarrel over "two boys named Jesus –"
6.  The baptism in the Jordan by John the baptist
7.  The silence in the desert
8.  The temptations
9.  The wedding at Cana
10.(Viewpoints for sexuali ty, sympathy, empathy and love)
11.The "holy zeal" (and viewpoints concerning emotions)
12.The Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7; and viewpoints of the mind)
13.Christ's Transfiguration on Mount Tabor (Matthew 17)
14.The question of the "miracles"
15.Raising Lazarus from the dead

16."The Sheep"
17.Christ "Washing the Feet"; and Mary of Bethany anointing Jesus
18.The Last supper, the triumphal entry, the arrest and the whipping
19.The crowning with thorns and the last speeches
20.Crucifixion and burial
21.The question of the empty grave, the "descent into hell" and the "ascent into paradise"
22.The Resurrection
23.The "Ascension" of Christ
24.The Whitsun event (Pentecost)
25.A picture of Jesus 

The 2nd part - The steps in the Revelation:

26. The Revelation of John
27. How to deal with prophecies 
28. Concerning the contents of John's revelation: The seven churches...
29. The seven seals
30. The seven trumpets
31. The "seven thunders" and the two prophets
32. The woman and the dragon
33. The "beast with seven heads" from the sea
34. The "beast with ten horns" from the earth
35. The "seven bowls of wrath and the end of "Babylon"
36. The (real) "1000 Years of Peace"
37. The New Heaven, the New Earth and the "New Jerusalem" .

- The final chapter of both parts - The Christian attitude.
- with a Table: A Christian attitude - "In the world" but not "from the world", a "Third way".
- Table: "Archetypes" (models, symbols)  from the earliest history -elucidated by the bible- to Jesus, and to the future.

Part 3: Topics, questions of life:
Theology and the Churches
- These pages and the theologic schools.
- Why do I need a Church or community ?  
- The "7 Churches" of the Revelation and the Churches of today, and the ecumene.
- The pope John Paul II
- Inspirations and the Churches
- Apocryphals.
- A correction of modern commercial "Jesus disclosure - stories"
Several topics, practical and biblical questions:
- Viewpoints concerning sexuality, sympathy, empathy, love, friendship and marriage.
- Jesus Christ and human nourishing
- The Lord's Supper- 
- Natural Sciences and the Belief in God
- Consciousess, brain and the free will. (new).
- Jesus Christ and healing - also today
- A Prayer for peace...
- Bible study and Gospel Meditation
- Blessings
- Complaining as a possible part of Christian practice (new)
- A Christian way - digestion of the daily life. (new)
- The topic of the Creeds.
- The question of life after death and its consequences for life before death.
- Christianity - its relation to other teachings about "karma" and "reincarnation".
- To the "small Apocalypse" in the Gospel of Matthew.
Ethics and society, philosophy:
- Basics of ethical values
- Christian viewpoints for economy and social questions
- Christian viewpoints for society and politics
- Christian viewpoints for ecological questions
- The unborn human life.
- Religion and philosophy: A comment concerning a speech of Habermas...

Part 4: The Old Testament, and contributions to the dialogue with other religions.

- The Old Testament, the Jewish Religion and Jesus Christ
- Jesus Christ and the Islam
- Critical comments: the caricatures concerning Prophet Mohammed from danish newspapers.
- The Religion of Zarathustra (Parsism) and Jesus Christ
- The Buddhism
- Hinduism
- Taoism & Confucianism
- Shintoism & Natural Religions
- The declaration of the World Summit of Religious Leaders 2006 at Moscow.
- Religion as reconnection with God.

Complete e-book versions:
- Ways-of-Christ for download and print: (PDF ebook; 546 kB, around 116 pages),  
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or: as an ebook for use with "Microsoft Reader" (295 kB)
- For print: images for meditating (pdf-file for "Acrobat Reader", 169 kB, 3 pages).

Updates list,  search tool,  donations,  imprint, e-mail,  links, ...
- A list of updates integrated in the main text since July 2001.
- Additional literature: theology....
- Painted map of the time of Jesus.
- Table: "Archetypes" (models, symbols)  from the earliest history -elucidated by the bible- to Jesus, and to the future.
- Search tools for this site and the web, and christian search engines with "votes for this site".
- An additional service: the free World English Bible.
- To the links-page: links and linklists, how to place links to this page....
- Voluntary donations
- Imprint, Copyright Ways of Christ ™, e-mail.

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