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Human Christ, The: The Search for the Historical Jesus

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Overview: This book is the first chronicle of this quest from its beginnings to the present day. It described the different - yet amazingly similar - Jesuses that have emerged over the past 300 years: Jesus the deist rationalist of the 18th-century English coffee houses; Jesus the Hegelian synthesizer of Judaism and Hellenism of the early 19th century; Jesus the mythologized moralist of David Friedrich Strauss; Jesus the romantic universalist of Ernst Renan; Jesus the apocalypse-obsessed madman of Albert Schweitzer; and Jesus the Cynic-like sage of the late 20th century. In addition, the author focuses on the huge "life-of-Christ" industry that has flourished in novels and films, revealing it to be a heady combination of piety, exotica, and even soft-core pornography. Finally, the author explores the efforts of Jewish and Gentile scholars to locate Jesus' place in first-century Judaism, the environment in which he actually conducted his ministry. Many books have claimed to identify who the "historical" Jesus really was, but this is the first to expose what the quest for the historical Jesus has really about. For generations, scholars, intellectuals, novelists, and filmakers, have set out to find the "real" Jesus and have come up with mirror images of themselves. Their efforts amount to an exercise in theology rather than history and one that tells more about the intellectual and popular fads of their time than it does about Jesus. While the author debunks these rationalistic approaches to Jesus, she has not abandoned useful historical methods. Guided by an unwavering acceptance of religious mystery, the author exhaustively researched and referenced her work. This approach to the divine is a way to free authentic spirituality from the chains of intellectual fashion. Now readers with an interest in the man at the center of Christianity but little interest in dogmatic historians can enjoy an authoritative, superbly written, and powerfully independent perspective on what it has meant - and what it means - for God to become flesh.

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Informasi Detail

Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

232.908 Al5h

Penerbit

New Jersey, USA : Free Press., 1998

Deskripsi Fisik

xv, 383

Bahasa

German

ISBN/ISSN

0-684-82725-5

Klasifikasi

232.908

Tipe Isi

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Tipe Media

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Tipe Pembawa

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Edisi

1

Subjek

Jesus Christ -- Biography -- History and criticism
Jesus Christ -- Historicity

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