A scandalous Jesus : how three historic quests changed theology for the better - Bessler, Joseph A. (Salem, Oregon : Polebridge Press, 2013)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-250) and index.
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Keywords: Jesus Christ -- Historicity; RELIGION / Christian Theology / Christology; Electronic books