Skip to content
uef-logo
  • Home
  • About
  • Conference
  • Events
  • Podcast
    • Transcripts
  • East Meets West
  • argumentatio
12.1.2022| laurithuren

Jesus, Don’t Preach!

Lauri Thurén Contrary to common belief, the founder of Christianity was not much of a preacher man. He is most commonly referred to in the synoptic gospels as a teacher, and he seldom proclaims any divine truths. Instead, Jesus typically asks his audience questions and tells them stories about daily life, beggars and kings, bad […]

About the blog

EAST MEETS WEST is a blog of School of Theology at the University of Eastern Finland.

Most popular posts

  • 9.10.2023

    The Status of the Reinstitution of Deaconesses in the Orthodox Church Today: Consecrated in Africa, Considered Elsewhere

  • 9.12.2021

    Eastern Orthodox Christianity and the West

  • 9.6.2022

    The Dialogue between Christianity and Science in the West and in the East

  • 2.11.2021

    Perspectives on the Study of Eastern and Western Personhood

  • 23.2.2022

    Academic culture, boundary-crossing and pop-up

Tags

academic africa armenia article beliefs Catholic christianity consecration deaconesses dialogue East eastern chuches EastMeetsWest enlighment Florovsky globalization God humanitarian aid islam local church logoi natural science nature non-violence online Orthodox peace peace movement pop-up research publish readership refugee Russia supernatural Theology theory Tolstoian Tolstoy tradition traditional values transnational UEF Ukraine war resisters West

Archive

    1. October
    1. January
    2. February
    3. March
    4. April
    5. June
    1. September
    2. November
    3. December

Subscribe to the blog

RSS feed

Itä-Suomen yliopisto

Joensuu, Kuopio

© University of Eastern Finland

Give feedback | Data protection | Accessibility