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The Historical Jesus Goes to Church

Author: Roy W. Hoover

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 150

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What difference does scholarship on the historical Jesus make for the way we think about the meaning of Christian faith in the twenty-first century? In The Historical Jesus Goes To Church, biblical scholars--Fellows of the Jesus Seminar--speak directly to the ways in which new knowledge of the Jesus of history requires and enables us to think differently about the significance of Jesus and about the reliability and authority of the Bible. They also imagine what these new understandings imply for public worship, preaching, prayer and practice, and life in community. These articles evoke the spirit of Paul, Christianity's first theologian, who like us found himself standing at the intersection of two eras and knew that he had to let go of his past if he hoped to have a future.

Studying the Historical Jesus

Author: Darrell L. Bock

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2002-07

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 080102451X

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An informed, scholarly approach to the study of the historical Jesus that takes the Gospels seriously as a source of historical information.

The Historical Christ and the Jesus of Faith

Author: C. Stephen Evans

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 019826397X

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The New Testament contains a story about Jesus of Nazareth which has always been understood by the Church to be historically true. It is an account of the life, death, and resurrection of a real person, whose links with history are firmly signalled in the creeds of the early church. Contemporary historical scholarship, on the other hand, has called into question the reliability of the church's version of this story, and thereby raised the question as to whether ordinary people can know its historical truth. In this book, a leading philosopher of religion argues that the historicity of the story still matters, and that its religious significance cannot be captured by the category of "non-historical myth." The commonly drawn distinction between the Christ of faith and the Jesus of history cannot be maintained. The Christ who is the object of faith must be seen as historical; the Jesus who is reconstructed by historical scholarship is always shaped by commitments to faith. Evans looks carefully at contemporary New Testament studies, and the philosophical and literary assumptions upon which it rests, to show that this scholarship does not undermine the confidence of lay people who believe that they can know that the church's story about Jesus is true. His accessible and controversial study will interest all thoughtful Christian readers. -- Publisher description.

The Historical Jesus of the Gospels

Author: Craig S. Keener

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2012-04-13

Total Pages: 870

ISBN-13: 0802868886

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The earliest substantive sources available for historical Jesus research are in the Gospels themselves; when interpreted in their early Jewish setting, their picture of Jesus is more coherent and plausible than are the competing theories offered by many modern scholars. So argues Craig Keener in The Historical Jesus of the Gospels. In exploring the depth and riches of the material found in the Synoptic Gospels, Keener shows how many works on the historical Jesus emphasize just one aspect of the Jesus tradition against others, but a much wider range of material in the Jesus tradition makes sense in an ancient Jewish setting. Keener masterfully uses a broad range of evidence from the early Jesus traditions and early Judaism to reconstruct a fuller portrait of the Jesus who lived in history.

The Historical Jesus

Author: Gary R. Habermas

Publisher: College Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780899007328

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Rev. ed. of: Ancient evidence for the life of Jesus. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prophet and Teacher

Author: William R. Herzog

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9780664225285

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Herzog has written an introduction for seminary and college students to the discussion about the historical Jesus. He reports on the findings of the Jesus Seminar and also traces other scholarly work in Jesus studies, but with an eye to the theological.

The God of Jesus

Author: Stephen J. Patterson

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 1998-04-01

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1563382288

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This book is the result of the author's involvement with the Jesus Seminar. The premise is that the quest for the historical Jesus has always been closely related to the Christian search for God, and that this is both good and necessary, provided that one properly understands the relationship between history and theology and does not confuse the two.Patterson develops s theology that might properly be called a "Jesus Theology" and it is here that his contribution to the discussions of and about Jesus makes it a most distinctive contribution.

The Historical Jesus: A Guide for the Perplexed

Author: Helen K. Bond

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2012-03-29

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 0567125106

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The introduction to this new guide sets out the sources (Graeco-Roman, Jewish and Christian), noting the problems connected with them, paying particular attention to the nature of the gospels, and the Synoptic versus the Johannine tradition. A substantial section will discuss scholarship on Jesus from the nineteenth century to the explosion of works in the present day, introducing and explaining the three different 'quests' for the historical Jesus. Subsequent chapters will analyse key themes in historical Jesus research: Jesus' Galilean origins; the scope of his ministry and models of 'holy men', particularly that of prophet; Jesus' teaching and healing; his trial and crucifixion; the highly contentious question of his resurrection; and finally an exploration of the links between the Jesus movement and the early church. Throughout, the (often opposing) positions of a variety of key scholars will be explained and discussed (eg. Sanders, Crossan, Dunn, Wright, Brown).

The Historical Christ and the Theological Jesus

Author: Dale C. Allison Jr.

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2009-03-09

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 0802862624

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In this book, Dale Allison addresses ongoing historical-theological questions concerning Jesus Christ. What should one think of the modern quest for the historical Jesus when there is such enduring discord among the experts, and when personal agendas play such a large role in the reconstructions? How much history is in the Gospels, and how much history does Christian theology require that there be? How does the quest impinge on conventional Christian beliefs, and what might it contribute to contemporary theological reflection? --From publisher's description.

Jesus and His Death

Author: Scot McKnight

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 1932792295

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Recent scholarship on the historical Jesus has rightly focused upon how Jesus understood his own mission. But no scholarly effort to understand the mission of Jesus can rest content without exploring the historical possibility that Jesus envisioned his own death. In this careful and far-reaching study, Scot McKnight contends that Jesus did in fact anticipate his own death, that Jesus understood his death as an atoning sacrifice, and that his death as an atoning sacrifice stood at the heart of Jesus' own mission to protect his own followers from the judgment of God.