When History and Faith Collide: Studying Jesus - Softcover

Hedrick, Charles W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801046548 ISBN 13: 9780801046544

Publisher: Baker Academic, 1999

Synopsis

Hedrick explores the tension, or collision, that occurs when one studies the Jesus of faith with the critical eye of historical scholarship. He outlines the nature of historical inquiry, gives a brief history of how scholars have understood Jesus, and identifies the essential issues confronting the reader of the New Testament Gospel accounts of Jesus: discrepancies, contradictions, and differences as well as strong similarities among different writers.

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From the Back Cover:

"For many Christians, studying the historical Jesus disrupts and challenges their comfortable faith in the divine Christ of the creeds they have repeated all their lives. According to Hedrick such conflict can 'bring new insights, a broader understanding, and a deeper appreciation for the complementary relationship between faith and history.' . . . In clear and precise prose, Hedrick asserts that the best way to understand the historical Jesus is to study the Gospels as 1st-century texts that present us with information about the life and death of Jesus. His book serves as an introduction to the central conflicts inherent in the contemporary study of Jesus." --Publishers Weekly

About the Author:

Charles W. Hedrick is professor of religious studies and distinguished scholar at Southwest Missouri State University. He is the author of Parables as Poetic Fictions and is the volume editor for Nag Hammadi Codices XI, XII, XIII.

About this edition

• Publisher: Baker Academic
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0801046548
• ISBN 13: 9780801046544
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208