Author : Jonathan Bernier
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 056766287X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis The Quest for the Historical Jesus after the Demise of Authenticity by : Jonathan Bernier
Download or read book The Quest for the Historical Jesus after the Demise of Authenticity written by Jonathan Bernier and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For two centuries scholars have sought to discover the historical Jesus. Presently such scholarship is dominated not by the question 'Who was Jesus?' but rather 'How do we even go about answering the question, "Who was Jesus?"?' With this current situation in mind, Jonathan Bernier undertakes a two-fold task: one, to engage on the level of the philosophy of history with existing approaches to the study of the historical Jesus, most notably the criteria approach and the social memory approach; two, to work with the critical realism developed by Bernard Lonergan, introduced into New Testament studies by Ben F. Meyer, and advocated by N.T. Wright in order to develop a philosophy of history that can elucidate current debates within historical Jesus studies.