Jewish Jesus research and its challenge to Christology today / by Walter Homolka.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Homolka, Walter, author.

Series:

Jewish and Christian perspectives series ; Volume 30.

Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series, 1388-2074 ; Volume 30

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 pages)

Place of Publication:

Brill 2017

Leiden, [Netherlands] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2016.

Summary:

Historical Jesus research, Jewish or Christian, is marked by the search for origins and authenticity. The various Quests for the Historical Jesus contributed to a crisis of identity within Western Christianity. The result was a move “back to the Jewish roots!” For Jewish scholars it was a means to position Jewry within a dominantly Christian culture. As a consequence, Jews now feel more at ease to relate to Jesus as a Jew. For Walter Homolka the Christian challenge now is to formulate a new Christology: between a Christian exclusivism that denies the universality of God, and a pluralism that endangers the specificity of the Christian understanding of God and the uniqueness of religious traditions, including that of Christianity.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction

1 Historical Jesus Research: A Reception History

2 The Jewish Jesus Quest and the Wissenschaft des Judentums

3 Reclaimed or Reclaiming? Recent Jewish Approaches to Jesus’s Wirkungsgeschichte

4 Jewish Quests and Christian Problems

Conclusion: Implications and Future Perspectives

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-33174-3

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004331747 DOI