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A scandalous Jesus : how three historic quests changed theology for the better / Joseph A. Bessler.

By: Publisher: Salem, Oregon : Polebridge Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (x, 259 pages) : portraitContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781598151237 (electronic bk.)
  • 1598151231 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Scandalous JesusDDC classification:
  • 232.9/08 23
LOC classification:
  • BT303.2 .B39 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
PART I : THE FIRST QUEST -- Why the first quest for the historical Jesus? -- Locke, Hume, and the shifting loyalties of reason -- Jefferson's Jesus and the religious conflicts of a new civil society -- Reimarus and the critique of ecclesiastical power -- Lessing and the public staging of the Reimarus fragments -- Strauss, Jesus, and the scandal of democracy -- Schweitzer and the scandal of liberal theology -- PART II : THE NEW QUEST. The Christian retreat from public life -- Avoiding scandal : the new quest -- The new quest and the changing voices of theology -- PART III : THE RENEWED QUEST. The turn to language in biblical studies and theology -- The Jesus seminar and the renewed quest for a public Jesus -- Beyond belief : re-imagining faith.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-250) and index.

PART I : THE FIRST QUEST -- Why the first quest for the historical Jesus? -- Locke, Hume, and the shifting loyalties of reason -- Jefferson's Jesus and the religious conflicts of a new civil society -- Reimarus and the critique of ecclesiastical power -- Lessing and the public staging of the Reimarus fragments -- Strauss, Jesus, and the scandal of democracy -- Schweitzer and the scandal of liberal theology -- PART II : THE NEW QUEST. The Christian retreat from public life -- Avoiding scandal : the new quest -- The new quest and the changing voices of theology -- PART III : THE RENEWED QUEST. The turn to language in biblical studies and theology -- The Jesus seminar and the renewed quest for a public Jesus -- Beyond belief : re-imagining faith.

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