Jewish Jesus research and its challenge to Christology today
Historical Jesus research, Jewish or Christian, is marked by the search for origins and authenticity. The various Quests for the Historical Jesus contributed to a crisis of identity within Western Christianity. The result was a move "back to the Jewish roots!" For Jewish scholars it was a...
| Published in: | Jewish and Christian perspectives series |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden Boston
Brill
[2017]
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| In: |
Jewish and Christian perspectives series (Volume 30)
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| Reviews: | Jewish Jesus Research and its Challenge to Christology Today (2017) (Hezser, Catherine, 1960 -)
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| Series/Journal: | Jewish and Christian perspectives series
Volume 30 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Jesus Christus
/ Jewish studies
/ Christology
B Judaism |
| Further subjects: | B
Judaism
Relations
Christianity
B Jesus Christ Historicity B Jesus Christ Jewish interpretations B Christianity and other religions Judaism B Jesus Christ Jewishness |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis (Verlag) Klappentext (Verlag) Literaturverzeichnis |
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| Summary: | Historical Jesus research, Jewish or Christian, is marked by the search for origins and authenticity. The various Quests for the Historical Jesus contributed to a crisis of identity within Western Christianity. The result was a move "back to the Jewish roots!" For Jewish scholars it was a means to position Jewry within a dominantly Christian culture. As a consequence, Jews now feel more at ease to relate to Jesus as a Jew. For Walter Homolka the Christian challenge now is to formulate a new Christology: between a Christian exclusivism that denies the universality of God, and a pluralism that endangers the specificity of the Christian understanding of God and the uniqueness of religious traditions, including that of Christianity |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 141-169 und Index |
| ISBN: | 9004331735 |