The quest for the historical Jesus after the demise of authenticity : toward a critical realist philosophy of history in Jesus studies / by Jonathan Bernier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bernier, Jonathan, author.

Series:

Library of New Testament studies ; 540.

T & T Clark library of biblical studies

Library of New Testament studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jesus Christ--Historicity.

Jesus Christ.

Historicity of Jesus Christ.

Physical Description:

viii, 180 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury T&T Clark, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.

Summary:

For two centuries scholars have sought to discover the historical Jesus. Presently such scholarship is dominated not by the question 'Who was Jesus?' but rather 'How do we even go about answering the question, "Who was Jesus?"?' With this current situation in mind, Jonathan Bernier undertakes a two-fold task: one, to engage on the level of the philosophy of history with existing approaches to the study of the historical Jesus, most notably the criteria approach and the social memory approach; two, to work with the critical realism developed by Bernard Lonergan, introduced into New Testament studies by Ben F. Meyer, and advocated by N.T. Wright in order to develop a philosophy of history that can elucidate current debates within historical Jesus studies.

Contents:

Part I Philosophy

Chapter 1 Critical Realism 101 21

Critical Realism and its Procedural Derivatives 23

Subjectivity and Objectivity 27

Bias and Conversion 31

Decline and Progress 34

Functional Specialization 36

Chapter 2 Research and Interpretation 38

Research 38

Interpretation 44

The Aims of the Synoptic Tradition 51

Chapter 3 History and Dialectic 55

History 55

Dialectic 69

Part II Historiography

Chapter 4 Dominical Situation 73

The Bethany/Bethphage Complex 73

The Missional Complex 76

The Festival Complex 81

The Jesus Network and its Diversity 83

The Messiah Complex 86

The Seeds of the End 92

Illness and Cure 94

Chapter 5 The Ecclesiastical Situation 97

Regional Case Study 1 Jerusalem and the Judean Church 102

Regional Case Study 2 Antioch 110

Regional Case Study 3 Ephesus and Asia 114

Regional Case Study 4 Corinth 122

Chapter 6 The Evangelical Situation 126

The Gospel of Mark and Media Dynamics of the Gospel Tradition 126

The Gospel of Matthew and the Geography of Tradition 142

The Gospel of Luke and the Emergence of the Gentile Mission 151

The Gospel of John and the Others 155.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Bernier, Jonathan, author. Quest for the historical Jesus after the demise of authenticity

ISBN:

9780567662866

0567662861

OCLC:

950955180

Publisher Number:

40026610951