JESUS CHRIST AS A RABBINIC MODEL: ADVOCACY FOR EDUCATION AND FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE
JESUS CHRIST AS A RABBINIC MODEL: ADVOCACY FOR EDUCATION AND FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE

Summary/Abstract: Jesus Christ as a Rabbinic Model: Advocacy for Education and Freedom of Conscience. This article reads Jesus Christ as a rabbinic model whose authority reframes late Second Temple pedagogy into a discipleship of freedom. The Gospel titles rabi/rabbuni are shown to be historically grounded, not mere honorifics, while Jesus’ authority flows from identity and mission. His methods—parable, formative questioning, and vulnerable service (foot-washing; Peter’s reinstatement)—train moral imagination without coercion and convert power into love. In juridical and theological perspective, freedom of conscience protects the forum internum and orients education toward neutral, pluralist, proportionate norms; theologically it rests on the imago Dei and a pedagogy of calling: truth offered, not imposed.A practical model follows: authority exercised as service; christological content filtered through the double love command; method structured by presence–narrative–practice; and evaluation by visible fruits—supported institutionally by conscientious-objection procedures, mediation, and deliberative dialogue.

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