Historical Christ and the Jesus of Faith - The Incarnational Narrative As History

Zusatztext Evans questions and challenges the reader to acquire a new insight and respect for the validity of the core story of the gospel. Informationen zum Autor C. Stephen Evans is William Spoelhof Scholar and Professor of Philosophy at Calvin College. Klappentext The story of Jesus Of Nazareth, as recounted in the New Testament, has always been understood by the Church to be historically true. It is an account of the life, death, and resurrection of a real person, whose links with history are firmly signaled in the creeds of the early Church, which affirm that Jesus 'suffered under Pontius Pilate'. This book argues that the historicity of the story still matters, and that its religious significance cannot be captured by the category of 'non-historical myth'. Zusammenfassung Investigating the historial truth of the New Testatment's account of Jesus of Nazareth, this study considers the philosophical and literary assumptions of sceptical contemporary New Testament scholars, and argues that these accounts do not undermine a conviction that the story is true.

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• Authors: C. Stephen Evans, C. Stephen (William Spoelhof Scholar and Pr Evans, Evans C. Stephen
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.04.1996
• EAN: 9780198263975
• ISBN: 978-0-19-826397-5
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, History of Religion, The Early Church