Gesù contro

Abstract

Jesus of Nazareth was tortured and executed by the authorities of his time because he was found guilty of very serious crimes. Was he really a criminal? Is there a connection between his being “marginal man,” on the edge of different cultures, and his conviction? How did the relationship between “culture” and ‘law’ affected his fate? And, finally, what would have been the outcomes of his his court case? This book proposes an initial answer to these questions, through the methodological tools of scientific research: on the level of analysis sociological, of conflict, of culture, of deviance, anomie; on the level of analysis juridical, of canonical, Jewish and Roman law. The conclusion illuminates and declares a resounding “unspeakable.” Jesus is not only a deviant: he is a universal paradigm of deviance, of which he has become an archetype from time immemorial and forever. He is the one who par excellence deviates from the logic of profit, from acquiescence to the rules of convenience, from the claims of compliance disguised as customary norms. And by consequence he is the one who in every time and in every place finds and causes his own condemnation final