Revolutionary Contexts for the Quest: Jesus in the Rhetoric and Methods of Early Modern Intellectual History
This article contributes to a new perspective on the historical Jesus in early modern intellectual history. This perspective looks beyond German and academic scholarship, and takes account of a plurality of religious, social, and political contexts. Having outlined avenues of research which are cons...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
[2019]
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Journal for the study of the historical Jesus
Year: 2019, Volume: 17, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 35-80 |
Further subjects: | B
Quakers
B More B d'Holbach B Enlightenment B Reimarus B Nayler B Priestley B Historical Jesus B Revolution |
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Summary: | This article contributes to a new perspective on the historical Jesus in early modern intellectual history. This perspective looks beyond German and academic scholarship, and takes account of a plurality of religious, social, and political contexts. Having outlined avenues of research which are consistent with this approach, I focus on radicalised socio-political contexts for the emergence of history' as a category of analysis for Jesus. Two contexts will be discussed: the late eighteenth century, with reference to Joseph Priestley, Baron d'Holbach, and their associations with the French Revolution; and the interregnum period in seventeenth-century Britain, with reference to early Quaker controversies and the apologetic work of Henry More. I identify ideas about Jesus in those contexts which have echoed in subsequent scholarship, while challenging the notion that there is a compelling association between sympathetic historical conceptions of Jesus (as opposed to theological) and a tendency towards radical and revolutionary politics. |
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ISSN: | 1745-5197 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the historical Jesus
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/17455197-01701005 |