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Jesus as political cynic
Peter J. Leithart, First Things
Monday, April 3, 2023
In his recent “political life of Jesus,” I Judge No One, David Lloyd Dusenbury makes the arresting claim that Jesus was what we’d call a political realist or even cynic – His keen observations on the ways of the world were full of withering scorn.