The Quest for the Historical Jesus after the Demise of Authenticity: Toward a Critical Realist Philosophy of History in Jesus Studies

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For two centuries scholars have sought to discover the historical Jesus. Presently such scholarship is dominated not by the question 'Who was Jesus' but rather 'How do we even go about answering the question, "Who was Jesus"' With this current situation in mind, Jonathan Bernier undertakes a two-fold task: one, to engage on the level of the philosophy of history with existing approaches to the study of the historical Jesus, most notably the criteria approach and the social memory approach; two, to work with the critical realism developed by Bernard Lonergan, introduced into New Testament studies by Ben F. Meyer, and advocated by N.T. Wright in order to develop a philosophy of history that can elucidate current debates within historical Jesus studies.

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Contains many informative discussions, thoughtful observations and thought-provoking insights. Scholars of the historical Jesus, the early church and the NT would do well to pay attention to this publication. * Neotestamentica *

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Jonathan Bernier (Ph.D., McMaster University) lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and is the author of Aposynagogos and the Historical Jesus in John: Re-thinking the Historicity of the Johannine Expulsion Passages (2013)