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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"historical Jesus"”.
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The Consciousness of the Historical Jesus: A Thomistic Study in Historiography, Theology, and Metaphysics
… theology, and metaphysics in the discipline of historical Jesus studies. Through close engagement with the thought of Thomas Aquinas (1225–1275), I develop a constructive proposal for how metaphysics informs the doctrine of Christ, and how this, in turn, impacts the task of thinking about Jesus …
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The fascist Jesus : Ernest Renan's Vie de Jesus and the theological origins of fascism.
… to answer the question of how the “quest of the historical Jesus” contributed to the formation of Fascist political theology. It is a study of why and how the “Academic Jesus” of scientifically trained scholars became the “Fascist Jesus” of politicians like Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler. …
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Proto-Trinity: the development of the doctrine of the Trinity in the first and second Christian centuries
The search for the ‘historical Jesus’ has resulted in the view that Jesus never was, nor claimed to be, any more than a mere man. A conservative theologian still hold that the doctrine of the Trinity, later made explicit in the creeds, is implicit within the New Testament texts and was Jesus’ most …
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The gospel of Denys: The central character in 'Jesus de Montreal' (Denys Arcand, Québec)
Denys Arcand's 1989 film, Jesus de Montreal, retells the story of the New Testament Jesus in an imaginative fashion. Arcand uses a historical Jesus in a passion play to present the outline of his Jesus character and completes the portrait with the presentation of the modern actor, Daniel, playing …
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The Mission Statement of Jesus: Mark 1:15, Mark's Apocalyptically Charged Decision Motif
… dissertation examines the mission statement of Jesus in Mark 1:15: ‘The time is fulfilled, the kingdom of God is at hand, repent and believe in the gospel’. The statement will be examined from the perspective of the writer, Mark, who - it will be argued - crafted the statement as a rhetorical …
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Ritual and religion: Responses to positivism
… worship, and its view of the significance of the historical Jesus in the history of Christianity are ultimately incompatible with the Christian faith, and thus inferior to a Wittgensteinian construal, which eschews a general theory of religion and instead pays proper attention to particular …
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The sacrificial Christology of Hebrews : a Jewish Christian contribution to the modern debate about the Person of Christ
… also contains an important depiction of the historical human Jesus. This has led many scholars to argue that the Epistle contains two conflicting and juxtaposed portraits of Christ - one concerned with the human historic Jesus - the other concerned with Christ the Divine Son of God This …
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Cleansing the Common: A Narrative-Intertextual Study of Mark 7:1-23
<p>The conflict story of Mark 7:1–23 between Jesus and the religious leaders over the issue of defilement is the meeting point of a variety of disciplines: Purity studies, Jewish studies, exegetical studies, Historical Jesus studies, and studies on Jesus and the law. The crux of the passage, the …
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Secrecy Motifs and Messianic Consciousness In the First Gospel: Pre-Easter Tradition and Historicity Vis-A-Vis the Theological Agenda of Mark and the Early Church
… of secret messiahship. A survey of the socio-historical evidence as well as the textual evidence for and against an authentic messianic consciousness on the part of Jesus of Nazareth is also presented. The primary thesis of the following discussion is that an historical concealing of Jesus' …
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Kosmos and Ioudaioi in the Fourth Gospel: Parallelism, function and context
… to the prologue, the farewell discourse and Jesus' speeches while it is the narrator who employs most occurrences of [Ioudaioi ; Special characters omitted.]. Based on the discovery that both terms are delegated to particular speaker roles and genres, chapter 5 seeks to determine the function …
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The parables of Jesus as symbols of social transformation in a critical view of food insecurity systems for vulnerable households in urban townships
… is to determine the use of the parables of the historical Jesus as transformative interpretive instruments of food shortage in urban townships. We will give much attention on the 12 theses critical reading of the parables espoused by Van Eck. In order to reach stated objectives, a sample of 360 …
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הנצרות הפלסטינית ויחסה לארץ הקודש
העבודה הזאת עוסקת בנצרות הקדומה ובשלבי התפתחותה במאה הראשונה לספירה. הדגש בעבודה הוא על יחסי הגומלין בין הנצרות ל ארץ הקודש. המחקר הזה מציע קריאה אלטרנטיבית של המקורות העבריים הקדומים, שלפיה התנועה של ישו ההיסטורי נתפסת כתוצר של השיח הת יאולוגי והפוליטי באו תה תקופה בגליל וביהודה. הקריאה המוצעת …
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The Crucifiable Jesus
In recent decades, scholars have both used Jesus’ crucifixion as a criterion of historicity and employed the rhetoric of a “crucifiable Jesus”– suggesting that some historical reconstructions of Jesus more plausibly explain his crucifixion than others. This dissertation tests the grounds of these …
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Know Yourself and You Will Be Known: The Gospel of Thomas and Middle Platonism
… is a collection of 114 sayings attributed to Jesus and is primarily composed of rhetorical statements that were used to preserve the teachings of itinerant Greek philosophers. These collections were used to persuade individuals to join the philosophical schools represented, much like the early …