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What are they Saying About the Historical Jesus?
Category: Books > Theology > Theology Books
Author/Artist: DAVID GOWLER
ISBN / ID: 9780809144457
Publisher: Paulist Press
Binding: PAPERBACK
Price: AU$29.95
  
Description: David B. Gower’s book succinctly introduces the current scholarly thinking about Jesus of Nazareth. This book summarizes, analyzes, and critiques current influential portraits of Jesus. It answers questions such as: what type of Jew was Jesus? How much of a role, if any, did apocalyptic/eschatological elements play in the teaching of Jesus? How can we best integrate Jesus' words and deeds to reconstruct a more complete portrait? It concludes that any portrait of the historical Jesus must come to terms with Jesus as both an apocalyptic prophet and a prophet of social and economic justice for an oppressed people. It seeks to go beyond today's ‘domesticated Jesus’ and to rediscover the Jesus of Nazareth who was a prophet of an oppressed people, who lived his life as a poor peasant artisan suffering under Roman and Herodian oppression in first-century Galilee, and who proclaimed and inaugurated the kingdom of God.
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