This work responds to the interest in the historical person of Jesus of Nazareth. After reviewing the important moments in the history of scholarship on Jesus, Barry Crawford explains why interest in research hs blossomed in the 1980s and 1990s after lying dormant for the previous two decades. He shows how recent advances in research (not only in biblical studies, but also in archaeology, cultural anthropology and sociology) have inspired a new generation of scholars to believe they can be more...
Contemporary scholars aiming to articulate a 'middle way' between fundamentalism and liberalism regularly draw upon Hans Frei and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, yet they are rarely brought together on this question, if at all. Here, Tim Boniface highlights the promise of reading them together, proposing especially that a discussion of Jesus' transcendence derived from their responses to modernity is an effective locus for considering their combined contribution to a 'middle way' discussion. Having outli...
The Christology of the Fourth Gospel (Beitrage zur Biblischen Exegese & Theologie, v. 23)
by William R. G. Loader
A Catholic Quest for the Historical Christ brings together a collection of interrelated essays on the historical Jesus and primitive Christology. Sensitive to the diverse, but traditionally Protestant assumptions and perspectives of the ""Quest"" as well as to the widely lamented disconnect between New Testament exegesis and classical dogmatic theology, an alternative approach is proposed in these pages. Ecumenical and conciliar reference points, along with non-confessional historical methods (e...
