The Life of Jesus (Classic Reprint): Critically Examined - Couverture souple

Strauss, David Friedrich

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1333518382 ISBN 13 : 9781333518387

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore how scholarship and church tradition shape our picture of Jesus—and what a careful reader can learn from both.

This nonfiction work offers a rigorous critical account of the gospel narratives and how they came to be understood over time. It weighs historical questions, textual evidence, and interpretive aims without losing sight of faith, practice, or belief.

The book surveys key episodes in the gospel accounts, including debates over authenticity and the development of tradition. It traces how different evangelists present events, and how later readers have connected or separated these narratives from the figures they describe.

• See how scholars test the reliability of passages and how tradition argues for their meaning
• Understand debates around figures like Mary, Martha, and the woman who animates a crucial scene
• Learn how critical inquiry and church faith interact in shaping doctrine and teaching
• Grasp the common ground and tensions between historical inquiry and religious belief

Ideal for readers of religious history, theology, and philosophy of religion who want to understand the dialogue between critical scholarship and faith.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Leben Jesu of David Friedrich Strauss, which was published in the year 1835, marked an epoch in the history of theology. On the one hand, this book represents the crisis in theology at which the doubts and critical objections of centuries as to the credibility of theB ible narratives had accumulated in such overwhelming volume as to break through and sweep away all the defences of orthodox apologetics. On the other hand, in the very completeness of the destructive criticism of past tradition lay the germs of a new science of constructive critical inquiry, the work of which was to bring to light the truth of history. It is quite true that theL ife of Jesus of 1835 was far from perfect, as judged by the present standard of scientific criticism, and Biblical science has long since advanced beyond it. Nevertheless, it cannot be disputed that it takes rank amongst the standard works which are secure of a permanent place in literature for all time, for the reason that they give final expression to the spirit of their age, and represent typically one of its characteristic tendencies. The liberating and purifying influence which such works exert 20929.
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Excerpt from The Life of Jesus Critically Examined

It is intelligible enough that the criticism of the Bible could not arise amongst the orthodox theo logians of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They were restrained by a rigid doctrine of inspir ation from an unprejudiced treatment of the Bible, and were moreover too much absorbed in dogmatic controversies and the defence of their confessions Of faith, to feel the need of more searching Biblical studies. It was amongst English Free-thinkers and Deists that the credibility of the Biblical narratives was first seriously assailed, and with so much tem per as to greatly detract from the scientific value Of the result. Thomas Woolston's Dzkcourses on Me Miracles (y. Our Saviour (six in number, 1727 - 1729)

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1333518382
• ISBN 13: 9781333518387
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 786
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible