Christobiography - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Christobiography write by Craig S. Keener. This book was released on 2019. Christobiography available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The canonical gospels are ancient biographies, narratives of Jesus's life. The authors of these gospels were intentional in how they handled historical information and sources. Building on recent work in the study of ancient biographies, Craig Keener argues that the writers of the canonical gospels followed the literary practices of other biographers in their day. In Christobiography he explores the character of ancient biography and urges students and scholars to appreciate the gospel writers' method and degree of accuracy in recounting the ministry of Jesus. Keener's Christobiography has far-reaching implications for the study of the canonical gospels and historical-Jesus research. He concludes that the four canonical Gospels are historically reliable ancient biographies."--Dust jacket.
A Trustworthy Gospel
A Trustworthy Gospel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Trustworthy Gospel write by Daniel B. Moore. This book was released on 2024-03-29. A Trustworthy Gospel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The trustworthiness of the Gospels rests not only on claims of inspiration, but also on eyewitness testimony. And our confidence in that testimony is directly related, Daniel Moore contends, to when the first Gospel was published. Therefore, it is incumbent upon Christians to consider whether an effective case can be made for asserting that the first Gospel was published within several years or perhaps a decade of the resurrection. To this end, this book offers a series of arguments demonstrating that an early publication of Matthew is reasonable, defensible, and preferable over the popular view that several decades passed before Gospels were published. These arguments include a reasonableness argument that the early church had the means, motive, and opportunity to produce a Gospel; an argument from the church fathers, which also resolves supposed conflicts; exegetical arguments from Galatians; apologetic-motivational arguments from Christian scholars over the last several centuries; arguments based on ancient perspectives on aging memory and on the obligation of orators to write, concerns which would have motivated the apostles to publish early; and an explanatory power argument. Ultimately, the author will encourage the reader to view Matthew as the Messiah’s royal chronicler.
The Philosophy of Christology
The Philosophy of Christology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Philosophy of Christology write by Hue Woodson. This book was released on 2022-01-31. The Philosophy of Christology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Given the perpetual problem of the historical Jesus, there remains an ongoing posing of the question to and a continuous seeking of the meaningfulness of Christology. From the earliest reckoning with the relationship between Jesus of Nazareth and the Christ of faith, what it means to do Christology today remains at the methodological center of the task and scope of every systematic theology. Whether giving an account of Albert Schweitzer’s bringing an end to the quest for the historical Jesus in 1906, or attending to Rudolf Bultmann’s period of no quest culminating with his demythologization project in the 1940s, how we still think of Christology as a matter of questions and concerns with meaning speaks to an unavoidable philosophizing of Christology. In this way, The Philosophy of Christology offers both a particular history of Christology in conjunction with a particular philosophy of Christology, which assesses the theological contributions by a group of Bultmannians following Bultmann in the 1950s and 1960s up to what can be reimagined by repurposing Jacques Derrida’s philosophical question into the meaning of love in 2002.
Jesus and Scripture
Jesus and Scripture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jesus and Scripture write by Thomas J. Parker. This book was released on 2024-02-29. Jesus and Scripture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For the New Testament writers, the Old Testament scriptures and the teachings of Jesus were key sources of authority and influence. When these influences are considered alongside each other, each can illuminate the other, deepening the New Testament writers' presentation of Jesus and our understanding of their interpretations. In Jesus and Scripture, Tom Parker examines the way in which Hebrews, James, and 1 and 2 Peter deal with these two different sources of authority, how they relate to each other, and what shifts have occurred historically and theologically within the writing of these texts. Treating the four epistles methodologically, Parker examines the particular ways in which each writer draws on the Hebrew scriptures. Ultimately, he argues convincingly that the nascent Jesus tradition, particularly via oral routes, influenced the way the Old Testament was processed by these various New Testament writers.
Authenticating Criteria in Jesus Research and Beyond
Authenticating Criteria in Jesus Research and Beyond - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Authenticating Criteria in Jesus Research and Beyond write by Kevin B. Burr. This book was released on 2023-10-16. Authenticating Criteria in Jesus Research and Beyond available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Are the criteria of authenticity of Jesus research idiosyncratic to New Testament studies, vehicles of subjectivity, and fundamentally flawed vestiges of form criticism as some claim today? If so, why do opponents of the criteria-approach still use them? Or, are the criteria the tools of general historiography as others assert? If true, none have adequately demonstrated where and how principles such as multiple attestation, general and historical coherence, dissimilarity and embarrassment feature in general historiographic method—until now. This study analyzes the methods of general historians and Jesus researchers (who favor or oppose the criteria) and demonstrates that, regardless of sub-discipline, authenticating criteria are inherent to the practice of historiography.
