TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bessler,Joseph A.
TI  - A scandalous Jesus: how three historic quests changed theology for the better 
SN  - 9781598151237 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BT303.2 .B39 2013eb
U1  - 232.9/08 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Salem, Oregon
PB  - Polebridge Press
KW  - Jesus Christ
KW  - RELIGION / Christian Theology / Christology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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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