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This episode covers Wolfhart Pannenberg, Robert Jenson, and the third quest for the historical Jesus.
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This lecture is part one covering the Quest for Jesus as scholars searched for Jesus as presented in the Gospels. There have been movements going on known as the Quest for the Historical Jesus. The First Quest for Jesus was an attempt of a biography of His life based on history, not theology. Miracles, healings, and resurrection were thought not to have happened so they were taken out. Albert Schweitzer could not accept the real Jesus found in the Scripture and brought the first Quest for Jesus to a halt. A Second Quest occurs and then the Third Quest emphasizes the Jewishness of Jesus. The trend is to show continuity between early Christianity with Jesus and Paul and the theology, culture, religiosity, and practices of Judaism at the time. This wave of scholarship became popular after 1945. Christianity was to be shown like Judaism. Judaism was not a religion of self-salvation and not strictly legalistic. Judaism was of grace. God elected Israel and brought them into His covenant. God at final judgment would give grace to the righteous. Points of discontinuity must be found between Jesus and Judaism to get to the distinctiveness of Jesus so finding things in the Gospel traditions that distinguish Jesus from his social, cultural, religious, and theological context was necessary. Consider that Jesus and John the Baptist do not have exactly the same message. John is the end of the beginning and Jesus brings the beginning of the end. John represents the end of the era of the Law and the Prophets. Eschatology is a theological understanding of time in general. John and Jesus have a different understanding of time and history.
This lecture is part one covering the Quest for Jesus as scholars searched for Jesus as presented in the Gospels. There have been movements going on known as the Quest for the Historical Jesus. The First Quest for Jesus was an attempt of a biography of His life based on history, not theology. Miracles, healings, and resurrection were thought not to have happened so they were taken out. Albert Schweitzer could not accept the real Jesus found in the Scripture and brought the first Quest for Jesus to a halt. A Second Quest occurs and then the Third Quest emphasizes the Jewishness of Jesus. The trend is to show continuity between early Christianity with Jesus and Paul and the theology, culture, religiosity, and practices of Judaism at the time. This wave of scholarship became popular after 1945. Christianity was to be shown like Judaism. Judaism was not a religion of self-salvation and not strictly legalistic. Judaism was of grace. God elected Israel and brought them into His covenant. God at final judgment would give grace to the righteous. Points of discontinuity must be found between Jesus and Judaism to get to the distinctiveness of Jesus so finding things in the Gospel traditions that distinguish Jesus from his social, cultural, religious, and theological context was necessary. Consider that Jesus and John the Baptist do not have exactly the same message. John is the end of the beginning and Jesus brings the beginning of the end. John represents the end of the era of the Law and the Prophets. Eschatology is a theological understanding of time in general. John and Jesus have a different understanding of time and history.
Tom Wright is a leading New Testament scholar and former Bishop of Durham in the Church of England. His academic work has usually been published under the name N. T. Wright; his books aimed at a more popular readership, such as What St Paul Really Said and Simply Christian, are published under the less formal name of Tom Wright. He is generally perceived as coming from a moderately evangelical perspective. He is associated with the so-called Third Quest for the Historical Jesus, and the New Perspective on Paul (a complex movement with many unique positions, originating from the probing works of James Dunn and E. P. Sanders). He argues that the current understanding of Jesus must be connected with what is known to be true about him from the historical perspective of first century Judaism and Christianity .
NT Pod 49 asks "What is the Third Quest of the Historical Jesus?. It is about twelve and half minutes long. NT Pod 49: What is the Third Quest of the Historical Jesus? (mp3) NT Pod 49: What is the Third Quest of the Historical Jesus? (mp3) (Alternative location) Feel free to leave your feedback below or on Twitter or on our Facebook page. Thanks to Ram2000, Me and You, for the opening theme, released under a Creative Commons agreement.
NT Pod 49 asks "What is the Third Quest of the Historical Jesus?. It is about twelve and half minutes long. NT Pod 49: What is the Third Quest of the Historical Jesus? (mp3) NT Pod 49: What is the Third Quest of the Historical Jesus? (mp3) (Alternative location) Feel free to leave your feedback below or on Twitter or on our Facebook page. Thanks to Ram2000, Me and You, for the opening theme, released under a Creative Commons agreement.