{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"ItemList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"I believe in the historical Jesus \/ by I. Howard Marshall.","author":"Marshall, I. H.","isbn":"0802816916","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co."},"datePublished":"1977","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents:\tThe rediscovery of Jesus -- A question of definition -- Faith and the supernatural -- Historical Jesus or Christ of faith -- Faith and historical study -- The search for the historical Jesus -- The nature of the gospels -- The form of the gospel tradition -- The history of the gospel tradition -- The historical Jesus -- The historic Jesus. \r\nAbstract:\tSuggests what is meant by the historical Jesus and how we can study his life.\r\nOther Notes: \tIncludes bibliographical references (pages 251-253).\n\nPublished in: Grand Rapids\n\nPhysical description: 253 pages ; 21 cm.","bookEdition":"1st American ed.","offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Jesus : the evidence \/ Ian Wilson.","author":"Wilson, I.","isbn":"006250973X","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"HarperSanFrancisco"},"datePublished":"1988","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents:\tIntroduction -- Discovering the documents -- The fallibility of the gospels -- Did Jesus even exist? -- Jesus, the Jew -- Flouter of convention -- Man of miracles -- Why was he killed? -- The empty tomb mystery -- How he became God -- The real Jesus.\n\nPublished in: San Francisco\n\nPhysical description: 207 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm","bookEdition":"1st Harper & Row pbk. ed.","offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Jesus of Nazareth \/ by Gu\u0308nther Bornkamm ; translated by Irene and Fraser McLuskey with James M. Robinson.","author":"Bornkamm, G.","isbn":null,"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Harper & Brothers Publishers"},"datePublished":"1960","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents:\tFaith and history in the Gospels -- Period and environment -- Jesus of Nazareth -- The dawn of the kingdom of God -- The will of God -- Discipleship -- Jesus' journey to Jerusalem; suffering and death -- The Messianic question -- Jesus Christ. \r\n\r\nOther Notes\tIncludes bibliographical references.\n\nPublished in: New York\n\nPhysical description: 239 pages ; 22 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Meeting Jesus again for the first time : the historical Jesus & the heart of contemporary faith \/ Marcus J. Borg.","author":"Borg, M. J.","isbn":"0060609176","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"HarperSanFrancisco"},"datePublished":"1994","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents:\tMeeting Jesus again -- What manner of man? The pre-EasterJesus -- Jesus, compassion, and politics -- Jesus and wisdom: teacher of alternate wisdom -- Jesus, the wisdom of God: Sophia become flesh -- Images of Jesus and images of the Christian life.\r\nAbstract:       Of the many recent books on the historical Jesus, none has explored what the latest biblical scholarship means for personal faith. Now, in Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, Marcus Borg addresses the yearnings of those who want a fully contemporary faith that welcomes rather than oppresses our critical intelligence and openness to the best of historical scholarship. Borg shows how a rigorous examination of historical findings can lead to a new faith in Christ, one. That is critical and, at the same time, sustaining. Drawing on his own journey from a naive, unquestioning belief in Christ through collegiate skepticism to a mature and contemporary Christian faith, Borg illustrates how an understanding of the historical Jesus can actually lead to a more authentic Christian life - one not rooted in creeds or dogma, but in a life of spiritual challenge, compassion, and community. In straightforward, accessible prose, Borg looks at the. Major findings of modern Jesus scholarship from the perspective of faith, bringing alive the many levels of Jesus' character: spirit person, teacher of alternative wisdom, social prophet, and movement founder. He also reexamines the major stories of the Old Testament vital to an authentic understanding of Jesus, showing how an enriched understanding of these stories can uncover new truths and new pathways to faith. For questioning believers, doubters, and reluctant. Unbelievers alike, Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time frees our understanding of Jesus' life and message from popular misconceptions and outlines the way to a sound and contemporary faith: \"For ultimately, Jesus is not simply a figure of the past, but a figure of the present. Meeting that Jesus - the living one who comes to us even now - will be like meeting Jesus again for the first time.\"\r\nOther Notes: \tIncludes bibliographical references and index.\r\nRelated electronic resource:\tPublisher description http:\/\/catdir.loc.gov\/catdir\/description\/hc044\/93025390.html Publisher description\n\nPublished in: San Francisco\n\nPhysical description: ix, 150 pages ; 22 cm.","bookEdition":"1st ed.","offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"The God of Jesus : the historical Jesus and the search for meaning \/ Stephen J. Patterson.","author":"Patterson, S. J.","isbn":"1563382288","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Trinity Press International"},"datePublished":"1998","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents:\tIntroduction. Who needs the historical Jesus? -- 1. The historical Jesus and the search for God: on the quest for the historical Jesus -- 2. Jesus and the empire of God: on dirt, shame, and sin in the expendable company of Jesus -- 3. The empire in a word: on the radical wisdom of Jesus -- 4. The empire in story: on the parables of Jesus -- 5. The empire of God is now: on Jesus and the end of the world -- 6. The death of Jesus the Jew: on the hope and tragedy that unites and divides us -- 7. Was Jesus right?: on the meaning of resurrection -- Conclusion. Is it a sin to be liberal? \r\nAbstract:\t\"This Book explains, in an accessible manner, the history of the quest for the historical Jesus and how this quest has always been related to the search for God. In addition, the book proposes a scheme for understanding the relationship between history and theology that avoids confusing the two. Finally, in what is arguably the book's most distinctive contribution, it presents what could be called a \"Jesus theology\" based on aspects of Jesus' life and teachings.\"--Jacket.\r\n\r\nOther Notes\tIncludes bibliographical references (pages 289-296) and indexes.\n\nPublished in: Harrisburg, Pa.\n\nPhysical description: xiii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":6,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"The Jesus quest : the third search for the Jew of Nazareth \/ Ben Witherington III.","author":"Witherington, B.","isbn":"0830815449","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"InterVarsity Press"},"datePublished":"1995","inLanguage":"English","description":"Contents:\tPreface : the first two quests -- Galilee & the Galilean : Jesus in his social setting -- Jesus the talking head : the Jesus of the Jesus Seminar -- Jesus the itinerant cynic philosopher : the works of John Dominic Crossan, Burton Mack and F. Gerald Downing -- Jesus, man of the Spirit : the works of Marcus Borg, Geza Vermes and Graham H. Twelftree -- Jesus the eschatological prophet : the works of E.P. Sanders and Maurice Casey -- Jesus the prophet of social change : the works of Gerd Theissen, Richard A. Horsley and R. David Kaylor -- Jesus the sage : the wisdom of God : the works of Elisabeth Schu\u0308ssler Fiorenza and Ben Witherington -- Jesus : marginal Jew or Jewish Messiah? : the works of John P. Meier, Peter Stulmacher, James D.G. Dunn, Marinus de Jonge, Markus Bockmuehl and N.T. Wright -- The journey's end : synopsis, conclusions, conjectures -- The death of the Messiah : the work of Raymond E. Brown. \r\n\r\nAbstract:\t\"Who is the Jesus behind the Gospel narratives? How would he have been understood by his contemporaries? Did the church transform a charismatic rabbi or a peasant-philosopher into its heavenly, incarnate Lord? Does the key to Jesus' real identity actually lie in the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Peter or other noncanonical Jesus literature suppressed by the ancient orthodox church? What do the sects, parties and movements of Jewish Palestine tell us about the real Jesus, his words, his actions and his intentions?\" \"These are the questions being asked by a new generation of investigators of the man behind the origin of Christianity. Dubbed the Third Quest of the historical Jesus, this renewed effort is a transformation of the first quest, memorialized and chronicled by Albert Schweitzer, and the second quest, carried out in the 1950s and 1960s in the wake of extreme Bultmannian skepticism. Now in the 1990s, with the time, place and social setting of Jesus newly illumined by renewed and vigorous investigation of the Dead Sea Scrolls and other Jewish and Hellenistic sources, there has appeared a surge of scholarly books on Jesus within his Jewish and Mediterranean environment.\" \"The controversial works of John Dominic Crossan, Marcus Borg and Burton Mack, and the results of the Jesus Seminar have been thrust upon the public by publicists and media as the voices of learned consensus. Meanwhile, at the center of the scholarly investigation of Jesus, a less celebrated but certainly no less informed majority rejects many of the methods and conclusions of those who have captured the limelight.\"--Jacket.\r\n\r\nOther Notes\tIncludes bibliographical references (pages 288-294) and indexes.\n\nPublished in: Downers Grove, Ill.\n\nPhysical description: 304 pages ; 24 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}}]}