The self-understanding of Jesus: a metaphysical reading of historical Jesus studies
This article argues that the quests for the historical Jesus have largely operated with an understanding of history hindered by a severely constricted range of divine and human possibilities. By outlining human self-understanding' as a historiographical question, it emphasises the determinativ...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2019]
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Scottish journal of theology
Year: 2019, Volume: 72, Issue: 3, Pages: 291-307 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Life of Jesus research
/ God
/ Human being
/ Self-understanding
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| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Christology
B Docetism B Historical Jesus B Metaphysics B New Testament B self-understanding |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | This article argues that the quests for the historical Jesus have largely operated with an understanding of history hindered by a severely constricted range of divine and human possibilities. By outlining human self-understanding' as a historiographical question, it emphasises the determinative role in historical judgement played by the historian's assumptions about the range of possibility available to the processes of human thought. Highlighting three particular concerns that historians tend to connect to docetism', it suggests a couple of ways that metaphysical and theological forms of reasoning could expand the horizon of possibilities available to historical Jesus scholarship in a way that will augment access to the historical figure of Jesus. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-3065 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Scottish journal of theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0036930619000346 |