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Historicity of Jesus (Biblical Representation (Dr John Dickson (Christian…
Historicity of Jesus
Biblical Representation
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Presence in the life of believers is the primary focus of Christian faith and thus, the search for the historical Jesus must rely on the gospels
Believes that Jesus is the Messiah, contemporary Jesus scholarship is "bogus"
Seminar aimed to rank the authenticity of Jesus' sayings by colours, from red being that Jesus undoubtedly said this to black, in which Jesus did not say this
Greg Koukl affirms that the purpose of the Jesus Seminar was to attack what the Bible says about Jesus and thus in essence the Bible's portrayal of Jesus is wrong
History is not the ultimate criterion of truth against which the gospels must be judged and thus places limits on history
Believes that the New Testament is the most genuine source of obtaining the knowledge of human Jesus, than historical documents
Disagrees with the Seminar's methodology as he sees it as a way of scholars determining faith by history and that they want to focus on a Jesus other than the one portrayed in the gospels
In order to gain an insightful knowledge on the historical Jesus, a historian must rely more on the gospels, rather than historical documents and also argues that the "real Jesus" is the one present through faith and not history
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Nicholas Perrin
“like everyone else, they want certain things to be true about Jesus and equally want certain others not to be true of him”
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Third Quest
Projected to a larger audience, and presented to a wider range of scholars allowing for more criticism and corrections
Criterion of Rejection and Execution (1985) --> Jesus was rejected and executed by the Jews and also poses questions on what sayings and deeds could of occurred in this situation
Criterion of Congruence - aimed to review what has already been established as historical, and test if a new finding or hypothesis is consistent to what has been found
Accumulation of methods prevalent in the search of historical Jesus, it is dominant that the Jesus constructed during these quests are fundamentally different from each other. As a result, there is a minute agreement on the methodology, in which the historicity of Jesus may be sought out in the future
First Quest
Rudolf Bultmann
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Deconstructed the gospels to obtain the authentic sayings of Jesus from earlier editions of the gospel
Regarded his scholarly work as a service to preaching, and aimed to encourage Christian scholars and preachers, to conform to what has been discovered as it was historically true
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Samuel Reimarus
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Disputed the "resurrection of Jesus and argued that the disciples stole Jesus' body and fabricated the entire story"
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Turned to the gospels, and concluded that what i said in the gospels can be distinguished and separated from what Jesus himself actually was
Second Quest
Ernst Kasemann
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Criterion of dissimilarity - gospel passages are compared to Jewish context and if proved dissimilar, the passage is given more credibility
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