of Jesus’s revolutionary acceptance of people such as lepers who were ordinarily shunned. “Miracles are not changes in the physical world,” he argues. They are rather “changes in the social world.” Hence, “by healing the illness without curing the disease, Jesus acted as an alternative boundary keeper in a way subversive to the established procedures of his society.”21 Despite his denial, and in keeping with Troeltsch’s principle of correlation, it certainly seems that Crossan is resolutely committed