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

by Jonathan Bernier

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 056768170X
• ISBN13: 9780567681706
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"