Nazarene : Jesus Christ as born in or from Nazareth.
... from which the Word, becoming incarnate, could radiate its influence over, the whole of the universe" (Introduction au Christianisme, 1944). Clearly, according to Teilhard, although the Nazarene seed has to be once present for the Cosmic Christ to flower, the flowering of cosmicity cannot automatically follow from that seed. This must signify that Christ's cosmicity as visioned by Teilhard... designation - "the Christian Universal-Christ" - is a misnomer: we can speak only of "the Teilhardian Universal-Christ", And then the concept cannot refer to any possible direct flowering from the Nazarene seed. A Christic flowering from an evolutionary world-seed has been wrongly linked "both in theory and in historical fact" with Jesus. The mistake has been prompted by the function Scripture ascribes ...
... was looked upon as a sect of Judaism. The later part of the Talmud, which developed between 220 and 500 A.D., refers to Jesus - almost always pejoratively - as "ha-Nozri" (the Nazarene). The popular notion is that "Nazarene" comes from the description Page 18 "Jesus of Nazareth". Not that the etymology is quite at fault. Philologists like Albright, Moore and Schaeder vouch for... vicinity of present-day Nazareth. Unfamiliar with Hebrew-Aramaic and with the topography of Palestine, Greek-speaking Christians of Matthew's and Luke's time traced to an imaginary city the word "Nazarene". In passing, it is worth remarking that no other instance is known of a sect being called after the home of its founder. The place where a sect is founded may dictate the sect's name: e.g., "Plymouth... "Meccans" from Mohammed's birth-place Mecca. Outside of the Gospels, only a fifth-century Jewish love-poem yields for the first time the name "Nazareth" for a city. Most probably the word "Nazarene" derives from the Hebrew "nazar" meaning to "keep" or "observe" and labelling the observers of certain religious usages. From a late tradition maintained by the Mandaeans of Syria who relate themselves ...
... order? To be led through Bassora Bare in their shifts with halters round their necks And, stripped before all eyes, whipped into swooning, Then sold as slaves but preferably for little To some low Nazarene or Jew. Was that The order, Almuene? IBN SAWY Merciful Allah! And it is done? ALZAYNI I doubt not, it is done. IBN SAWY Their crime? ALZAYNI Conspiring murder. They have ...
... entire human trajectory is outlined. There is nothing apocalyptic about the birth of Jesus, which does not refer to the notion of the End of Time, but to the idea of human unity and divine unicity. The Nazarene embodies, in our eyes, above all love. And if it is true that, as thaumaturgy, he performed numerous miracles in order to open spirits to the possibility of the supreme miracle for the Jewish people ...
... seems the least out of accord with Paul's Galatians-statement, depicts the antecedents of the experience thus: "...I once thought it was my duty to use every means to oppose the name of Jesus the Nazarene. This I did in Jerusalem; I myself threw many of the saints into prison, acting on authority from the chief priests, and when they were sentenced to death I cast my vote against them. I often went ...
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