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Jesus the Forgiving Victim Part 4: Unexpected insiders
Welcome to Part 4, Unexpected insiders, which consists of 10 modules. At this point in our journey we are discovering new dimensions of how we are insiders within a great shift.
Module 1 The working of desire
Part Four continues our journey of discovering ourselves on the inside of the big anthropological shift set in motion by Jesus the Forgiving Victim. In this module we look at the way what we call prayer involves undergoing huge shifts at the level of desire.
Unit 1 4.1 Welcome to Part 4: Unexpected insiders  
Unit 2 4.1 The working of desire: Remembering desire  
Unit 3 4.1 The working of desire: Listen and Share  
Unit 4 4.1 The working of desire: Wrap-up  
Module 2 The Our Father
As we read the Our Father in this module, James invites us to imagine ourselves as highly malleable, being stretched between two force fields, two patterns of desire – that of the social other and the Other other.
Unit 1 4.2 The Our Father: Receiving a new story  
Unit 2 4.2 The Our Father: Our Father  
Unit 3 4.2 The Our Father: Listen and Share  
Unit 4 4.2 The Our Father: Wrap-up  
Module 3 The restaurant and the halfway house
The next three modules will offer, by means of some images, a way in to a non-idolatrous living of Church, one characterized by spacious imagination and a complete lack of rivalry in the belonging.
Unit 1 4.3 The restaurant and the halfway house: Receiving a new story  
Unit 2 4.3 The restaurant and the halfway house: Check, please!  
Unit 3 4.3 The restaurant and the halfway house: Listen and Share  
Unit 4 4.3 The restaurant and the halfway house: Wrap-up  
Module 4 The portal and the Embassy
With more intriguing images, we are invited to imagine Church as a sign that what we had taken for normal was in fact more like being in prison.
Unit 1 4.4 The portal and the Embassy: Receiving a new story  
Unit 2 4.4 The portal and the Embassy: Paradigm shift  
Unit 3 4.4 The portal and the Embassy: Listen and Share  
Unit 4 4.4 The portal and the Embassy: Wrap-up  
Module 5 The Banquet
This module continues the theme of freeing ourselves from idolatry of Church by looking in particular at rules and clerical leadership.
Unit 1 4.5 The Banquet: Receiving a new story  
Unit 2 4.5 The Banquet: Washing your hands  
Unit 3 4.5 The Banquet: Listen and Share  
Unit 4 4.5 The Banquet: Wrap-up  
Module 6 A little family upheaval
In this module we fill out the idea of secondariness and the alteration of our relationship to our past and our future that flows from the shift of perception that who I am does not start with me.
Unit 1 4.6 A little family upheaval: Receiving a new story  
Unit 2 4.6 A little family upheaval: Just draw!  
Unit 3 4.6 A little family upheaval: Listen and Share  
Unit 4 4.6 A little family upheaval: Wrap-up  
Module 7 Beginning in the middle
The Gospel accounts of Jesus death and resurrection in Luke and John narrate a sense of setting right what had gone wrong in the Garden in Genesis.
Unit 1 4.7 Beginning in the middle: Receiving a new story  
Unit 2 4.7 Beginning in the middle: God isn’t finished with me yet!  
Unit 3 4.7 Beginning in the middle: Listen and Share  
Unit 4 4.7 Beginning in the middle: Wrap-up  
Module 8 The grandeur in the everyday
In this module we encounter Mary as the first and most complete example of “secondariness”. And we will see how John gives us an account of Jesus death as the fulfillment of the rite of Atonement, stretching it out of theater and into history.
Unit 1 4.8 The grandeur in the everyday: Receiving a new story  
Unit 2 4.8 The grandeur in the everyday: Remembering Ourselves  
Unit 3 4.8 The grandeur in the everyday: Listen and Share  
Unit 4 4.8 The grandeur in the everyday: Wrap-up  
Module 9 Neighbors and insiders: The Good Samaritan
In our reading of the parable of the Good Samaritan in Luke’s Gospel, we will glimpse what it is like to be on the inside of the life of God.
Unit 1 4.9 Neighbors and insiders: The Good Samaritan: Receiving a new story  
Unit 2 4.9 Neighbors and insiders: The Good Samaritan: Evolution  
Unit 3 4.9 Neighbors and insiders: The Good Samaritan: Listen and Share  
Unit 4 4.9 Neighbors and insiders: The Good Samaritan: Wrap-up  
Module 10 Neighbors and insiders: From sacrifice to mercy
In the final module of the course, we reach some conclusions about living according to mercy, the resurrection as an impetus for moral life, and that being inducted into the Christian faith is about being drawn in, by an initiative not our own, into becoming aware of what has been done for us.
Unit 1 4.10 Neighbors and insiders: From sacrifice to mercy: Receiving a new story  
Unit 2 4.10: Neighbors and insiders: From sacrifice to mercy: Listen and share  
Unit 3 4.10: Neighbors and insiders: From sacrifice to mercy: Wrap-up  
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