Jesus Christ in History and Scripture: A Poetic and Sectarian Perspective

includes index and biblioraphy

Chapter 1. Who is jesus christ today? .....1 Historical and historic knowledge of jesus ......3 The jesus of history and the christ of faith .....14 The imaginative construal of jesus ........22 Conclusion .......26 Chapter 2. The gospels and historical sources .....27 Sources for a study of jesus ......28 Source criticism ......43 Form critism ......47 Source and form criticism and the study of jesus .....52 Chapter 3. The gospels and religious literature ......57 Redaction criticism ......57 Literary criticism of the gospels ......76 The gospels and literary conventions and strategies .....78 Chapter 4. Philosophical constraints for jesus study ......87 Classical and medieval views of reality .....88 The influence of descartes and locke .......89 The englightenment in France ......95 The englightenment in great Britain .....96 The englightenment in Germany ........101 The modern and posrmodern worlds ....111 Postmodernism and benign skeoticism ......117 Chapter 5. Hermeneutical possibilities in jesus studies .....123 Hermeneutics and literary questions of knowledge and truth ......125 Friedrich schleiermacher ......131 Wilhelm dilthey ......135 Martin heidegger ......140 Rudolf bultmann and the new hermeneutic .....142 Hans-georg gadamer .....148 Paul ricoeur ......152 The contemporary theoretical context ......157 Reader-oriented literary approaches .....162 Conclusion .....167 Chapter 6. Theprecritical horizon and the original quest ....171 The precritical horizon for jesus study ......171 Reimarus and lessing ....179 Kant schleiermacher, and strauss ....183 The liberal quest of new testament scholars .......188 Liberal christologies ....191 Albert schweitzer .......203 Chapter 7. From bultmann to crossan and Wright ....211 The jesus books of dibelius and bultmann ......212 The post- bultmannian quest and the contemporary scene ......215 The jesus seminar and dominic crossan ....224 Third questers and N.T. (Tom) Wright .....235 The church and the critical study of jesus .....241 Chapter 8. The significance of literary criticism for new testament hermeneutics: Bultmann revisited ......255 Rudolf bultmann`s theological and existential approach to new testament hermeneutics ....256 Bultmann`s neglect of literary resources ......259 The new literary situation as evidenced in the work Of robert Jaub wolfgang iser ......263 The question of god ......267 Values of literary approaches for hermeneutics .....271 Chapter 9. A sheep in wolf`s clothing: Feminist and sectarian hermeneutics ......273 Autobiographical: entry into the literary world .....274 Postmodern literary study from hermeneutical perspectives ......276 The Radical reformation and contemporary feminists ......280 Conclusion .....292 Chapter 10. How to read and how not to read the bible: Lessons from the minister anabaptists ......293 Munster and the anabaptist vision .....294 The free, direct, and interactive reading of the anabaptists .....297 Excesses and churchly validation ......300 Historical critism and a circle of circles ....309 Conclusion. How must/or how may we interpret jesus .....319