The Adventures of the Teen Jesus — Introduction
This is the third in a series of novella-length examinations of the formative events of Jesus’ life. Most of these events are spiritual and intellectual. I have surmised, I believe correctly, that Jesus could never have emerged for his few years of public mission had he not absorbed, and thought through, the issues that emerge in the earliest texts dealing with his life. These texts are the Q Document and The Gospel of Tomas.
Most of the sections of this growing work take the form of imagined conversations between Jesus and Abba, the Aramaic word for dad or father. Abba is the one to whom Jesus prayed regularly. Abba is the name he gave to his followers when he presented them with the Lord’s Prayer.
Here are locations of the first two books in this series.
The Adventures of The Child Jesus (The Adventures of Jesus Book 1), Stephen C. Rose http://buff.ly/1Rk4c77
Adventures of the Boy Jesus (The Adventures of Jesus Book 2), Stephen C. Rose http://buff.ly/1P8SUTY
You can sample each text at no charge.
This section of the work will cover the fourteenth and fifteenth years of Jesus’ life as a daily student of Abba.
While it may seem a stretch to assume conversations such as these, I think each session suggests a reasonable inference regarding what Jesus considered and learned during at least 20 years when he was growing and developing as a teacher-healer.
It is impossible to be aware of the entire sweep of canonical Christianity without discerning in it a major tension between its powerful creedal narrative and an understanding that emerges from attention to the substance of what Jesus taught and did. To plumb this tension has been ny life work. The fruits of this labor are each segment of this growing narrative.
The reader will decide whether sense underlies these surmises. And what its implications are when the most common iterations of Christianity eschew this sort of inquiry.
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Stephen C. Rose writes daily. Medium is his drafting board. Kindle his marketplace. You the reader his hopeful supporter. He promotes his thought and art on Twitter and has his own publication on Medium called Everything Comes which any new writer can join on the way to finding his or her way. Drafts of his fiction completed and in progress can be found on Coffeelicious which is also a Medium publication.
