{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"ItemList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"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"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"The Word became flesh \/ by Francis J. Moloney.","author":"Moloney, F. J.","isbn":"0853425175","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Distributed by Clergy Book Service"},"datePublished":"1977","inLanguage":"English","description":"Abstract\tSt. John's Gospel has always been one of the most widely read and admired documents from the New Testament. Moving words from Jesus call us to life, light and truth, and we are told that this truth will set us free. In many ways, Jesus' words in this Gospel have an immediate appeal to contemporary men and women. Despite this, there are still many who find John's presentation of Jesus unreal, and scholars have gone so far as to claim that the Johannine Jesus is \"a God striding over the earth\", distant from hopes and needs of mere mortals. Like all Evangelists, John was a product of his time, influenced by his social, cultural and religious environment. Beyond all this, however, stands the impact which Jesus of Nazareth had upon him. John's Gospel is an attempt to give witness to the unique event of Jesus of Nazareth. This book discusses what John means when he portrays Jesus as the Logos, the Son of God, the Son of Man and the Messiah, passing from pre-existence in God, through \"the hour\" of an incarnation and death to come to his final glory with his Father.\r\n\r\nOther Notes\tIncludes bibliographical references (pages 119-121) and index.\n\nPublished in: Butler, WI\n\nPhysical description: 123 pages ; 18 cm.","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Book","name":"Under the unpredictable plant : an exploration in vocational holiness \/ Eugene H. Peterson.","author":"Peterson, E. H","isbn":"0802837050","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"W.B. Eerdmans"},"datePublished":null,"inLanguage":"English","description":"Undercapitalized Vocations. Vocational Idolatry. The Jonah Story -- I. Buying Passage to Tarshish. 1. Jonah Disobedient. Escape to Tarshish. Stay Where You Are. Ecclesiastical Pornography. The Travel Agent in Joppa. 2. Jonah Obedient. Professionalized Obedience. The Kind of Pastor We in Fact Are -- II. Escaping the Storm. 1. Repudiating Tarshish Religion. What Do You Mean, You Sleeper? The American Religious Ship. Throw Me into the Sea! 2. Recovering a Gospel Vocation. Songs and Stories and Red Bandannas. God and Passion. The Cornfield. Vocational Holiness. A Slow Leak. The Euclidean Threat. A Karamazov in Every Home. Seed-Planting Dostoevsky. Jonah's Sea Storm and Paul's Shipwreck -- III. In the Belly of the Fish. 1. Conditions. The Bottom Line. The Golden Calf. Hogging the Show. 2. Askesis. Three Days in the Belly. Holy Saturday. Prettyfeather. Monastery without Walls. 3. Prayer. The School of the Psalms. Rule. The Contemplative Pastor -- IV. Finding the Road to Nineveh. 1. Geography. James Joyce's Ulysses. A Day's Journey into Nineveh. Wendell Berry. The Congregation Is Topsoil. Spiritual Growth versus Religious Cancer. 2. Eschatology. Yet Forty Days. St. John's Revelation. Equally Yoked. Eschatological Laundry List -- V. Quarreling with God under the Unpredictable Plant. 1. The Stunted Imagination. Leonard Storm. A Hugely Dimensioned Destiny. The Mess of Creativity. Bruce. 2. The Recovered Vocation. Paradigm Shift. Messiahs, Managers, and Spiritual Directors. Reuben Lance. Karen. Making an Ending.\n\nPublished in: Grand Rapids, Mich.\n\nPhysical description: ix, 197 pages ; 24 cm","bookEdition":null,"offers":{"@type":"Offer","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OutOfStock"}}}]}