45 DG ei er tmr iac nh y ,Baosnkheode fwf ehro, aC hLrui tsht ei rs atno puas s tt oo dr ai yn. Irte �i lse ac t qoune st ht ieo nq ut he satti oi nnvoi tfews he aocChhprei srts oi snf ot or tt hweomi. mTaog ea sn sowf e Jre st uh si s Cqhurei ss tt i oi nn , mt hye rme i anrde. JaensdusmCyhfrriiestndistothdeayt.eacher I admire most, s T c h h rT o o h l u a e g r r h s e a t t h r r i e o e s d p e e t er o i f o fo � d i r n s t ds in , w s h c h i h s o o t o l J a r e r y s s u w h s h a r e v e n e a m m lly a a n n is y y . dh ii sf fteorrei nc at l p Joerst ur as i, t ss oomf Jee ssucsh. oRl ae rgsa r tdhi ni ngk t hoef JHeismu s aass a ag repaot ltiet iacci ahne r, oa nr d as o mp reotphhi ne tk. o f 1 Personally, Jesus is the teacher I admire mw aoss taoJfeawl l wt i mh oe .l iHv ee dwians rrueraal llyGaa hl i ul eme ai nn . tHh ee �irst century.2 His teachings and deeds are rJ eescuosr'd ewdo ridns tahned Ndeewe d sTems taakme emn te. aAdnmy i roef h m im essa g g re e atl a y b . o F u i t rst t l h y, e I k r i e n a g l d ly om adm of ire Go h d is . Ap rcoc po rods iendg tl yh, e KJ ionsged o mP aogfoGl ao d tsoa ipde o pJ lees ua ss aanpdlaacepwlaictheowutovrtiholelinvcine,gwiint.hout injustice 3 It is a new fwaimt hi loyu tfo rd otmh oi ns ei o nw, hwo iat hcoc eupt t cilta, sas e sfa ma ni ldy with only God as Father of all.4 In other w� i nodr dlso, v iet . iPs e ras opnl aacl ley, wJ ehseurse seuvgegreysotne ed ct ah ne bb ea sc tk s otlhuet ino, n wt ohhi cuhm acnoi nt yt 'isn umeosr a tl op r oabplpe lmy. AH li tsh mo uegshs aag se m, iat l li sg raonu pu ni nd esnoicai be lt ey of apcpt otsheadt Ho nee souf cHc ei se tdi emde . i “nT ha tetyr aacrtei nc go navlimn coesdt beyv ehri ys message”5. Even more than 2000 years ap frteear c hhei ds , mt heesys asgt ei l sl eaxni sdt taenadc hi imn gp sa c tw tehr ee lJ ievseuss oaf s pme oy p gl er e taot d taeya. cMh eorr eboevcearu, sI e a od fmHi ri es aa cc tt ii oo nn s. .HHe i ss i dperde awc hi tihn gt hwe al so wc eo ru pc ll ea ds s ews i tohf 1 N. T. Wright,Who Was Jesus?1st North American ed (Grand Rapids, Mich: Eerdmans, 1993), 1-15. 2 Markus N. A. Bockmuehl, ed.,The Cambridge Companion to Jesus, Cambridge Companions to Religion (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 1. 3 Jose A. Pagola,Jesus: An Historical Approximation(Convivium Press, 2020), 104-111. 4 Pagola, 279. 5 Pagola, 261. Beginning With Jesus Khoa Duong SVD
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