{"product_id":"the-historical-jesus-five-views-9780830838684","title":"The Historical Jesus: Five Views","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristianity Today\u003c\/i\u003e Book Award winner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe scholarly quest for the historical Jesus has a distinguished pedigree in modern Western religious and historical scholarship, with names such as Strauss, Schweitzer and Bultmann highlighting the story.\u003c\/b\u003e Since the early 1990s, when the Jesus quest was reawakened for a third run, numerous significant books have emerged. And the public's attention has been regularly arrested by media coverage, with the Jesus Seminar or the James ossuary headlining the marquee.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis Spectrum Multiview volume provides a venue for readers to sit in on a virtual seminar on the historical Jesus. Beginning with a scene-setting historical introduction by the editors, prominent figures in the Jesus quest set forth their views and respond to their fellow scholars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the one end Robert M. Price lucidly maintains that the probability of Jesus' existence has reached the \"vanishing point,\" and on the other Darrell Bock ably argues that while critical method yields only a \"gist\" of Jesus, it takes us in the direction of the Gospel portraits. In between there are numerous avenues to explore, questions to be asked and \"assured results\" to be weighed. And John Dominic Crossan, Luke Timothy Johnson and James D. G. Dunn probe these issues with formidable knowledge and honed insight, filling out a further range of options.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Historical Jesus: Five Views\u003c\/i\u003e offers a unique entry into the Jesus quest. For both the classroom and personal study, this is a book that fascinates, probes and engages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpectrum Multiview Books offer a range of viewpoints on contested topics within Christianity, giving contributors the opportunity to present their position and also respond to others in this dynamic publishing format.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLuke Timothy Johnson is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. His well known New Testament studies include \u003ci\u003eThe Writings of the New Testament\u003c\/i\u003e (1986), \u003ci\u003eThe Real Jesus: The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Truth of the Traditional Gospels\u003c\/i\u003e (1996) and \u003ci\u003eReligious Experience in Earliest Christianity: A Missing Dimension of New Testament Studies\u003c\/i\u003e (1998). He often lectures at universities and seminaries worldwide. He is a noted critic of the Jesus Seminar, often taking stances against Burton Mack, Robert Funk and John Dominic Crossan in discussions of the \"historical Jesus.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e[combined] \u003cb\u003eJames K. Beilby\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of systematic and philosophical theology, and \u003cb\u003ePaul Rhodes Eddy\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of biblical and theological studies at Bethel University, St. Paul, Minnesota. Together they have also edited \u003ci\u003eDivine Foreknowledge: Four Views\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Nature of the Atonement: Four Views.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul R. Eddy (Ph.D., Marquette University) is Professor of Theology at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota. His books include \u003ci\u003eJohn Hick's Pluralist Philosophy of World Religions\u003c\/i\u003e (Ashgate), \u003ci\u003eAcross the Spectrum: Understanding Issues in Evangelical Theology\u003c\/i\u003e (with G. A. Boyd, Baker) and \u003ci\u003eDivine Foreknowledge: Four Views\u003c\/i\u003e (with James Beilby IVP).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert M. Price is professor of biblical criticism at the Center for Inquiry Institute as well as the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Higher Criticism\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Dominic Crossan is professor emeritus in the department of teligious studies at DePaul University in Chicago. He has lectured to lay and scholarly audiences across the United States as well as in Ireland and England, Scandinavia and Finland, Australia and New Zealand, Brazil, Japan, and South Africa. He has been interviewed on 200 radio stations, including four times on NPR's \u003ci\u003eFresh Air\u003c\/i\u003e with Terry Gross.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames D. G. Dunn was for many years the Lightfoot Professor of Divinity in the Department of Theology at the University of Durham. Since his retirement he has been made Emeritus Lightfoot Professor. He is credited with coining the phrase \"New Perspective on Paul\" during his 1982 Manson Memorial Lecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDarrell L. Bock (Ph.D., Aberdeen) is research professor of New Testament studies and professor of spiritual development and culture at Dallas Theological Seminary in Dallas, Texas. He has written the monograph \u003ci\u003eBlasphemy and Exaltation in Judaism and the Final Examination of Jesus\u003c\/i\u003e and volumes on Luke in both the Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament and the IVP New Testament Commentary Series. Bock is a past president of the Evangelical Theological Society. He serves as a corresponding editor for \u003ci\u003eChristianity Today, \u003c\/i\u003e and he has published articles in \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eDallas Morning News.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"IVP Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50413714637074,"sku":"9780830838684","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f3d27b01-5c94-4a6b-b38a-6e78bc66a431.jpg?v=1729357147","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-historical-jesus-five-views-9780830838684","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}