The form critic Rudolf Bultmann had argued that we cannot get behind the use the early church made of Jesus traditions, so as to be able to talk about Jesus himself, and that we do not need to do so in any case. For the essence of Christianity is, after all, the kerygma of his death and resurrection. But his pupil Ernst Ksemann argued that this leaves Jesus rather ghostlike in our world, where historical research is used to establish historical reality it would amount to a modern kind of Docetism. Hence the Bultmann school shifted to a new quest of the historical Jesus, with Gunter Bornkamm's Jesus of Nazareth being the most widely-read outcome. Robinson traces this development step by step, and then in subsequent essays updates.
- ISBN10 0227172752
- ISBN13 9780227172759
- Publish Date 24 September 2010
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 26 April 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint James Clarke & Co Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Language English