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Bessler, Joseph A.

A scandalous Jesus : how three historic quests changed theology for the better / Joseph A. Bessler. - 1 online resource (x, 259 pages) : portrait.

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.

ISBN: 9781598151237 (electronic bk.) 1598151231 (electronic bk.)

Subjects--Personal Names:
Jesus Christ--Historicity.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
RELIGION / Christian Theology / Christology

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: BT303.2 / .B39 2013eb

Dewey Class. No.: 232.9/08