text: I get that the OT prophets sought out the "remnants'. It is my belief that Jesus was the civilization call to reverse it. Jesus - as a leader of men, as a philosoper/theologian - was in the line of Aristotle's contribution: the common good; mutual interdependency; safe-sacred space in community; civility and compassion as the basis of, not the end of law.  Redemption is Jesus' unique stamp.
  Our church must return to the human, smart Jesus in the intellectual tradition of human kind seeking to understand and care for humankind, elevated to creation itself, and for we humans, as elevated into the opportunity for the divine.