Cutting Jesus down to size : what higher criticism has achieved and where it leaves Christianity / G.A. Wells

Author: Wells, George Albert, 1926-
Published: Chicago, Ill. : Open Court, [2009]
Copyright Date: ©2009
Physical Description: x, 394 pages ; 23 cm

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Contents

Introduction -- What this book is about -- The Jesus of the early Epistles is not the Jesus of the Gospels -- Basic facts about the Gospels -- Mark -- Matthew and Luke -- John -- More on 'the Jews' in the Gospels -- The question of miracles and the work of David Friedrich Strauss -- The virgin birth -- Introduction -- The birth at Bethlehem -- Matthew's account -- Luke's account -- Luke's parallel between John the Baptist and Jesus -- The nativity as fulfillment of prophecy -- The genealogies -- The origin and purpose of the Christian virgin birth traditions and their post-Scriptural developments -- Finale -- The Resurrection -- The Gospel accounts -- The first three Gospels -- The fourth Gospel -- Paul's account -- Introduction -- To whom the risen Jesus appeared -- Cephas -- James -- The twelve -- The five hundred and more -- The New Testament evidence as a whole and the synoptic burial narratives -- Recent defenders of the traditional doctrine -- Recent reinterpreters of the traditional doctrine -- The Gospel of Mark : history or dogma? -- William Wrede's epoch-making book -- The role of disciples -- The secret of Jesus's status as Son of God -- Mark and community tradition : K.L. Schmidt and form-criticism -- Q, the sayings Gospel -- The prelude to Jesus's public ministry -- Jesus and John the Baptist -- The temptation -- Jesus as apocalyptic prophet -- The transition from prophecy to apocalyptic thinking -- From Reimarus to Schweitzer -- Hermann Samuel Reimarus -- Franz Overbeck, Johannes Weiss, and William Wrede -- Albert Schweitzer -- The fourth Gospel and later -- An appraisal of relevant passages -- Recent attempts to cope with the texts -- Sundry proposals -- 'Meta-narratives' -- Coping with the Romans -- Finale -- Concluding thoughts -- Epilogue: The Gospels and eyewitnesses -- Richard Bauckham -- P.R. Eddy and G.A. Boyd.

Subject(s)

Bible. Gospels—Criticism, interpretation, etc

ISBN

9780812696561 (trade paper : alk. paper)
0812696565 (trade paper : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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