Abbreviations
1. The Book in a Nutshell
2. The Two Kens
3. The Development of the Jesus Cult
4. The Many Lives of Jesus
5. Jesus Places
6. Internal Frontiers between Jews, Christians, Muslims
7. Expansion of the Jesus Cult
8. Jesus Objects
9. The Eucharist in Its Liturgical Context
10. Making Canon
11. Interpreting Canon
12. Ways of Knowing
13. Nicholas of Cusa’s Jesus
14. Art and the Deep Ken
15. Art and the Plain Ken
16. Extraordinary Jesus Images
17. Language and Power
18. Elevated Speech and Song
19. Resembling Jesus
20. Intimacy with Jesus
21. Ethics, Pacifism, Vegetarianism
22. Afterword: History between the Kens
List of Tables
List of Audio Clips
Glossary
Appendix A: Historiographical Context
Appendix B: Historical Development of the Plain Ken in Christianity
Appendix C: The Plain and Deep Kens
Select Bibliography
List of Manuscripts
Index
Luke Clossey is an associate professor of global history at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. His first book, Salvation and Globalization in the Early Jesuit Missions (Cambridge UP, 2008), won the Canadian Historical Association's Ferguson Prize for best work of non-Canadian history; a chapter from it won a paper prize from the World History Association. His writings on global religion, the history of ideas, and history methodology have appeared in the Journal of World History, the Journal of Global History, the Journal of Early Modern History, the Sixteenth Century Journal, Global History Review 全球史评 论 , History Compass, the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Literature, and The Cambridge World History.