Jewish Jesus Research and Its Challenge to Christology Today Contributor(s): Homolka, Walter (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004395024 ISBN-13: 9789004395022 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $55.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - General - Religion | Judaism - General |
Series: Jewish and Christian Perspectives |
Physical Information: 192 pages |
Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Historical Jesus research, Jewish or Christian, is marked by the search for origins and authenticity. The various Quests for the Historical Jesus contributed to a crisis of identity within Western Christianity. The result was a move "back to the Jewish roots " For Jewish scholars it was a means to position Jewry within a dominantly Christian culture. As a consequence, Jews now feel more at ease to relate to Jesus as a Jew. For Walter Homolka the Christian challenge now is to formulate a new Christology: between a Christian exclusivism that denies the universality of God, and a pluralism that endangers the specificity of the Christian understanding of God and the uniqueness of religious traditions, including that of Christianity. |