Jesus Christ today
Subtitle: the historical shaping of Jesus for the twenty-first century
By: Edgar V. McKnight.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Macon, Ga
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9780881461671
Subjects: Jesus Christ -- Historicity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: The contemporary challenge; title: Shaping and reshaping Jesus studies : Albert Schweitzer, N.T. Wright, and Benedict XVI. Introduction : the modern world and the historical-critical method; title: The shaping of a method according to Albert Schweitzer; title: Albert Schweitzer redivivus : historical tools in the work of N.T. Wright; title: Benedict XVI : historical criticism versus trust in the truth of the Gospels; title: Shaping and reshaping Jesus studies : Ernst Troeltsch and postmodern modesty. Ernst Troeltsch : historical criticism and faith in Christ; title: Theological scholarship today and the imaginative shaping of Jesus; title: Conclusion : cheating or not; title: Jesus as "Christ" and "Lord," "truly God" and "truly man." The primitive literary shaping : the Jesus traditions; title: The primitive literary shaping : early Christian confessions; title: The shaping of Jesus in the New Testament writings; title: Humanity and divinity in the shapings of Jesus Christ in the early church; title: Negotiating the gap between faith and history. The skeptical tradition of Rudolf Bultmann; title: Critique of the skeptical historical method; title: Literary shapings of Jesus. Redaction criticism; title: The Gospels and literary study; title: The church, the sacred and the shaping of Jesus. Ernst Troeltsch : the churches in sociological perspectives; title: Lesslie Newbigin : the church in ecumenical perspective; title: James Wm. McClendon, Jr. : the churches of the radical reformation; title: Roger Haight and the shaping of Jesus in an ecclesiology from below; title: Current negotiations in the shaping of Jesus of Nazareth. Fundamental issues and assumptions; title: Validating today's shaping of Jesus; title: Conclusion : shaping Jesus' identity and our own.