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

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

in Library of New Testament Studies

by Jonathan Bernier

Pages 224
Publisher T&T Clark
Published 2016
ISBN-13 9780567662866
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.

  • Table of contents
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: Philosophy
    • 1. Critical Realism
    • 2. Research and Interpretation
    • 3. History and Dialectic
  • Part II: Historiography
    • 5. The Ecclesiastical Situation
    • 6. The Evangelical Situation
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Indexes

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