The Historical Jesus: Five Views by James K. Beilby

Author:James K. Beilby [Beilby, James K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2010-01-04T00:00:00+00:00

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Remembering Jesus

How the Quest of the Historical Jesus Lost Its Way

James D. G. Dunn

Jesus Remembered [1] was the product and climax of some thirty years’ engagement with what is almost universally known as “the quest of the historical Jesus.” During the course of the research for the book itself I became increasingly dissatisfied with three key methodological presup- positions which have determined the course of the quest, all three of them more or less from its inception. In reaction I found it necessary to engage in the quest from a different starting point, with a different perspective on the source material and with a different objective in analyzing that material. These three protests and proposals are somewhat scattered and easily missed or lost to view in the scope and detail of the volume (900 pages!). In this essay I will attempt to bring them to clearer view, though it will be understood that the relative brevity of the essay permits neither the detail nor the nuance of the larger volume.[2] Nevertheless, the attempt to focus more sharply on the three protests and proposals may help to make the methodological issues clearer and to highlight their importance. Each of my protests is double-barreled. My proposals do not fall into such a neat repeating pattern.

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