The Historical Jesus: Five Views

Brief Description: The Historical Jesus: Five Views provides a venue for readers to sit in on a virtual seminar on the historical Jesus. Beginning with a scene-setting historical introduction by the editors, prominent figures in the Jesus quest set forth their views and respond to their fellow scholars. For both the classroom and personal study, this is a book that fascinates, probes and engages. Table of Contents: The Quest for the Historical Jesus: An Introduction Paul Rhodes Eddy and James K. Beilby 1. Jesus at the Vanishing Point Robert M. Price Responses: John Dominic Crossan Luke Timothy Johnson James D. G. Dunn Darrell L. Bock 2. Jesus and the Challenge of Collaborative Eschatology John Dominic Crossan Responses: Robert M. Price Luke Timothy Johnson James D. G. Dunn Darrell L. Bock 3. Learning the Human Jesus: Historical Criticism and Literary Criticism Luke Timothy Johnson Responses: Robert M. Price John Dominic Crossan James D. G. Dunn Darrell L. Bock 4. Remembering Jesus: How the Quest of the Historical Jesus Lost Its Way James D. G. Dunn Responses: Robert M. Price John Dominic Crossan Luke Timothy Johnson Darrell L. Bock 5. The Historical Jesus: An Evangelical View Darrell L. Bock Responses: Robert M. Price John Dominic Crossan Luke Timothy Johnson James D. G. Dunn Contributors Name and Subject Indexes Scripture IndexPublisher Marketing: 2011 Christianity Today Book Award winner! The scholarly quest for the historical Jesus has a distinguished pedigree in modern Western religious and historical scholarship, with names such as Strauss, Schweitzer and Bultmann highlighting the story. Since the early 1990s, when the Jesus quest was reawakened for a third run, numerous significant books have emerged. And the public's attention has been regularly arrested by media coverage, with the Jesus Seminar or the James ossuary headlining the marquee. The Historical Jesus: Five Views provides a venue for readers to sit in on a virtual seminar on the historical Jesus. Beginning with a scene-setting historical introduction by the editors, prominent figures in the Jesus quest set forth their views and respond to their fellow scholars. On the one end Robert M. Price lucidly maintains that the probability of Jesus' existence has reached the "vanishing point," and on the other Darrell Bock ably argues that while critical method yields only a "gist" of Jesus, it takes us in the direction of the Gospel portraits. In between there are numerous avenues to explore, questions to be asked and "assured results" to be weighed. And John Dominic Crossan, Luke Timothy Johnson and James D. G. Dunn probe these issues with formidable knowledge and honed insight, filling out a further range of options. The Historical Jesus: Five Views offers a unique entry into the Jesus quest. For both the classroom and personal study, this is a book that fascinates, probes and engages. Review Citations:

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Contributor Bio:  Beilby, James K James K. Beilby (Ph. D., Marquette University) is professor of systematic and philosophical theology at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota. His books include Why Bother With Truth? (with David Clark), Divine Foreknowledge: Four Views and The Meaning of the Atonement: Four Views (both with Paul Eddy), Naturalism Defeated?, For Faith and Clarity and Epistemology as Theology. His articles and essays have appeared in such publications as Faith and Philosophy, Philosophia Christi, Religious Studies, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, Sophia and Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society.