By: Stuart|07 July, 2010|Categories: Philosophy of History|Tags: Christ of faith . criteria for authenticity . Ernst Käsemann . Form criticism . Historical Jesus . James Robinson . Jesus . Jesus of history . John Meier . Karl Barth . kerygma . Redaction criticism . Richard A. Burridge . Rudolph Bultmann . The Second Quest . The Third Quest
At the beginning of the twentieth century the First Quest for the historical Jesus had failed. This dead state would not remain however. The third installment of this series will briefly survey the quest for the historical Jesus during the twentieth century.
Read more »By: Stuart|30 June, 2010|Categories: Philosophy of History|Tags: Albert Schweitzer . Anthony Collins . Benedict Spinoza . Christ of faith . D. F. Strauss . David Hume . English Deism . G. E. Lessing . H. E. G. Paulus . Historical Jesus . Jesus of history . Jesus quest . John Locke . John Tolland . Karl F. Bahrdt . Karl H. Venturini . Liberalism . Lord Edward Herbert of Cherbury . Pierre Bayle . Samuel Reimarus . william lane craig . William Wrede
Most credit Samuel Reimarus as the person to initiate the quest for the historical Jesus. He was not, however, without predecessors that laid his groundwork. Part two of this series briefly looks at what happened beforehand and during the first quest for the historical Jesus.
Read more »By: Stuart|26 June, 2010|Categories: Philosophy of History|Tags: Establishing Historical Descriptions . Historical Jesus . Historical Relativism . Jesus . John Stuart Mil . Methodological Natrualism . Michael Green . Miracles
The scandal of Christianity is that it is a religion grounded in historical events, which if they can be demonstrated to be false, would empty it of meaning and all power. Chief among those historical events is the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. I begin this ten part series with a goal in mind: to establish the description of the person of Jesus of Nazareth in the gospel narratives as truly historical. Part One of this series is a short introduction.
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