Bessler, Joseph A. <br/><br/>
A scandalous Jesus :  how three historic quests changed theology for the better / 
Joseph A. Bessler. 
 - 1 online resource (x, 259 pages) :  portrait. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-250) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781598151237 (electronic bk.) 1598151231 (electronic bk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Jesus Christ--Historicity.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>RELIGION / Christian Theology / Christology
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BT303.2  / .B39 2013eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>232.9/08