The Rehabilitation of Pharisaism
One of the first questions that early Christianity faced was that of the actual humanity of Jesus. Was he truly man as well as the incarnation of the Logos or was his humanity only an appearance? The early church settled that question and in the great formula of the Council of Chalcedon built his tr...
| Publié dans: | The biblical world |
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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University of Chicago Press
1913
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The biblical world
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| Résumé: | One of the first questions that early Christianity faced was that of the actual humanity of Jesus. Was he truly man as well as the incarnation of the Logos or was his humanity only an appearance? The early church settled that question and in the great formula of the Council of Chalcedon built his true humanity into orthodoxy by the phrase: "of the same substance with us as to his humanity." Our present age is facing the same question from a different angle, for as we come to see that to be a man is not only to have a human body and soul but is to participate in the social conditions of one's time, on the one side is developing a school which denies any real historicity to Jesus and on the other is a tendency to deny to Jesus everything that is not to be accounted for by an appeal to conditions in which he lived. The former school, like the old Docetic movement, speaks of a "Jesus God," while the second, like the Ebionites, would make him only a Jew among Jews. For our own part we have no doubt as to the outcome of the new controversy. In fact it is already in sight: Jesus was truly historical but his great significance did not lie in what he inherited from humanity but in what he contributed to humanity. Nothing could be more unsatisfactory than to make Jesus intelligible by omitting all those exceptional qualities in his person which give him influence. Professor Case's article gives a discriminating estimate of one of the recent efforts to make Jesus appear more historical by denying his uniqueness. |
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| Contient: | Enthalten in: The biblical world
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1086/474707 |