The historical reliability of the Gospels /

The historical reliability of the Gospels /

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Author / Creator:	Blomberg, Craig L., 1955-
Imprint:	Leicester, England ; Downers Grove, Ill., USA : Inter-Varsity Press, 1987.
Description:	xx, 268 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Jesus Christ -- Historicity. Jesus Christ. Bible. -- Gospels -- Evidences, authority, etc. Bible. -- Gospels -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible. -- Gospels. Authority -- Religious aspects. Historicity of Jesus Christ. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13237864

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ISBN:	0877849927 9780877849926 0851107745 9780851107745
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. committed to retain from JKM Seminaries Library 2023 JKM University of Chicago Library
Summary:	The search for the historical Jesus has had a long and complicated history. Nineteenth-century scholars, employing the tools of the historical-critical method, supplied a host of novel and contradictory interpretations of the Gospel materials. With the publication of Albert Schweitzer's The Quest of the Historical Jesus nearly all hopes of producing a "scientific" life of Jesus vanished. Twentieth-century researchers, while gaining a new appreciation of the Gospel writers as theologians, have largely remained skeptical of them as historians. Applying stringent "criteria of authenticity" to the sayings of Jesus, they have often left us with a Jesus who was merely human. Is such skepticism justified? Or can we trust the New Testament to give us accurate information about the nature and character of Jesus? What is the current state of Gospels research? Craig Blomberg summarizes the work of contemporary evangelical scholars sponsored by the Gospels Research Project of Tyndale House, Cambridge, and published in the six-volume Gospel Perspectives series. - Back cover.

Table of Contents:

Foreword
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Traditional Approaches to the Reliability of the Gospels
2. New Methods in Gospel Study
3. Miracles
4. Contradictions among the Synoptics
5. Problems in the Gospel of John
6. The Jesus Tradition Outside the Gospels
7. Final Questions on Historical Method
Postscript
Scripture Index
Author Index