What Jesus calls his hearers to do, most fundamentally, is not a cognitive act but a political one. They are called not to understand him, but to follow him; not to master a mantra, but to join a movement, to proclaim news, and to bear a cross. In the life of that movement, elements of cognition, statements in an ontological mode, both straightforward and paradoxical, are not missing; but they are not the heart of the challenge. Some texts (especially the parables, the apocalypses) intend to jolt the hearer into a new way of seeing, but this seeing is not an ahistorical gnosis; it is a new way of living, a walk.
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