Richard A. Horsley

Richard A. Horsley is Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and the Study of Religion at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

He described his view of the historical Jesus in these words (Jesus and the Spiral of Violence, pp. 207–208):

The focal concern of the kingdom of God in Jesus’ preaching and practice, however, is the liberation and welfare of the people. Jesus’ understanding of the "kingdom of God" is similar in its broader perspective to the confident hopes expressed in then-contemporary Jewish apocalyptic literature. That is, he had utter confidence that God was restoring the life of the society, and that this would mean judgment for those who oppressed the people and vindication for those who faithfully adhered to God’s will and responded to the kingdom. That is, God was imminently and presently effecting a historical transformation. In modern parlance that would be labeled a "revolution."

Horsley has a PhD from Harvard and previously taught at Wesleyan University.

Bibliography

• Jesus in Context: Power, People, and Performance (ISBN 0800663128)
• " Jesus and Spiral of Violence (Jan 1, 1993) ISBN 0800627105
• Galilee (Nov 1, 1995) ISBN 1563381338
• "Jesus and Empire: The Kingdom of God and the New World Disorder" (Nov 1, 2002) ISBN 080063490X
• Covenant Economics: A Biblical Vision of Justice for All by Richard A. Horsley (Jun 29, 2009) ISBN 0664233953
• "The Prophet Jesus & the Renewal of Israel" (30 Sep 2012) ISBN 978-0802868077