The Real Jesus: The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Truth of the Traditional Gospels
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 0060641770 / Publisher: Harper San Francisco, January 1996
Disputes the claim of the Jesus Seminar that Christianity is based on the historical figure of Jesus found in the Old Testament
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Powerfully challenging the scholarship of the media-hungry Jesus Seminar, respected New Testament scholar Luke Timothy Johnson argues that Christian faith is founded not upon a historical Jesus that scholarship can reconstruct, but on the resurrected Jesus proclaimed by the New Testament and Christian tradition. He states, "The real Jesus is not simply a figure of the past but very much and above all a figure of the present." Provocative and timely, The Real Jesus exposes the fundamentally misguided quest for the historical Jesus by the Jesus Seminaractually a small group of mostly marginal scholars - and by such scholars as John Dominic Crossan, Burton Mack, and Marcus Borg.
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