Enter Schweitzer and Kähler once again. Crossan’s reconstructed image of Jesus is a transparent function of his own theological agenda. He portrays Jesus as a revolutionary whose vision of the kingdom of God was countercultural egalitarianism. Jesus was critical of all hierarchical power and oppressive structures, just like Crossan himself. Jesus practiced open table fellowship that was fully inclusive, especially of the outcasts and downtrodden. Jesus was non-patriarchal and non-institutional. Crossan