Jesus and His Death
Subtitle: Historiography, the Historical Jesus, and Atonement Theory
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: September 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 451
ISBN-13: 9781932792294
Subjects: The historical Jesus; Person and offices; Historicity; Religion; Religion - Christian Life; Jesus Christ; Christian Theology - Christology; Faith; Religion & Spirituality; History; Atonement
First sentence: When academics stand before an audience and explain a view of the historical Jesus-in this case how Jesus understood his own death-and when the historical Jesus case is made in the context of a theological discipline and education, the scholar may think he or she is walking on water, but the voices of truth are calling out to the scholar to watch each step.
Description: "Recent scholarship on the historical Jesus has rightly focused upon how Jesus understood his own mission. But no scholarly effort to understand the mission of Jesus can rest content without exploring the historical possibility that Jesus envisioned his own death. In this careful and far-reaching study, Scot McKnight contends that Jesus did in fact anticipate his own death, that Jesus understood his death as an atoning sacrifice, and that his death as an atoning sacrifice stood at the heart of Jesus' own mission to protect his followers from the judgment of God."--BOOK JACKET.