Quests of the Historical Jesus
Quests of the Historical Jesus
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£84.00
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780567661562
Number of Pages: 976
Published: 20/09/2018
Jesus of Nazareth ranks among the most important figures in history. Yet there is no common agreement about his identity. It is generally accepted that there were three quests of the historical Jesus. The first was characterised by Albert Schweitzer, the second was conceived of as the 'New Quest' of the 1950s, and the Third Quest which collected the scholars from the two prior quests. This three-quest history in fact came about more due to the ingenuity of publishers than to scholars engaged in the enterprise. To describe what it left out, it was necessary to coin the facetious term 'No Quest.'
Quests of the Historical Jesus is a major reassessment of the situation, beginning with the evolution of orthodoxy and quests before Schweitzer’s. Along the way Brown examines the Nazi attempt to make Jesus an Aryan critic of Judaism. The book brings together ongoing questions — criteria, methods, and specific issues. Instead of seeking a bedrock of “facts,” Brown emphasizes the role of hermeneutics in formulating questions and seeking answers and concludes that, whether we realize it or not, the “facts” themselves are shaped by our hermeneutics and belief-systems.
Introduction
Road Map
1. Quests before Schweitzer
1. The First Quest
2. Evolution of Orthodoxy
3. Post-Reformation Alternatives
4. Deism and the Historical Jesus
2. The European Scene
5. Schweitzer and the Old Quest
6. From Old Quest to New
7. The No Quest in Europe to World War II
8. The No Quest in Europe after World War II
3. Britain and North America
9. Anglican Church Politics and the Historical Jesus
10. Jesus at Oxford and Cambridge
11. The Next Generation
12. Princeton and Yale
13. Chicago and Harvard
14. Jesus in America—The New Quest
15. Christology without the Historical Jesus?
4. Ongoing Issues
16. Apollonius and the “Divine Man”
17. Nietzsche and Jesus
18. Criteria, Methods, Sources
19. The Jewish Jesus
20. Jesus—Two Thousand Years Later. Part 1
21. Jesus—Two Thousand Years Later. Part 2
Bibliography
Index of Subjects
Index of Names
