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Gregory W. Dawes (ed.). The Historical Jesus Quest. Landmarks in the Search for the Jesus of History. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1999. Pp. xiv + 322. $24.95 (Paper).
Calef, Susan A.
Calef, Susan A.
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"Since the last decade of the twentieth century the Historical Jesus has captured the interest and imagination of scholars and, thanks to the media hype and advertising blitz by publishers surrounding their research, of the public as well. The names of Robert Funk and the Jesus Seminar, Marcus Borg, John Dominic Crossan, John Meier, E. P. Sanders, N. T. Wright are by now familiar to many. Few outside academia, however, realize that the historical questions pursued by these scholars were first posed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; furthermore, that the answers given at that time have influenced the shape of the current debate. The early pioneers are often referred to by those participating in the current "Third Quest," and their contributions are summarized in a work such as Mark Allan Powell's recent Jesus as A Figure in History. But non-specialist readers, even when familiar with the names of Reimarus, Strauss, Weiss, Wrede, Schweitzer, have had little access to their works. [2] Gregory Dawes rectifies the situation with this anthology of extracts from the pioneers whose writings represent landmarks in what became the quest for the historical Jesus. The volume consists of an introduction, eight chapters spanning the period from Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694-1768) to Ernst Käsemann (1906-98), and a general index. The Introduction presents the two conditions necessary for the emergence of the historical Jesus quest, namely, the undermining of the authority of biblical writings and the development of a sense of history, hence, its title "The Divorce Between History and Faith." The pertinent excerpts are from Benedict Spinoza's Tractatus Theologica-Politicus and Ernst Troeltsch's "Historical and Dogmatic Method in Theology.""(pg 1)
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