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31 Cards in this Set
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What did Bultmann say about the life of Jesus?
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I do indeed think that we can now know almost nothing concerning the life and personality of Jesus.
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What did Karl Barth say about the historical Jesus?
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Jesus Christ in fact is...historically so difficult to get information about...
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What is the Jewish analogy to the fact that many 20th century Christians prefer to study the early church and not Jesus.
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Many Jewish scholars prefer to study Talmud rather than Tanakh. As it is safer.
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What does Wright mean by the icon and the silhouette when he describes to popular conceptions of Jesus?
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He is describing the old devotional ecclesiastical Jesus who had moved far from his Jewish roots, as well as the reaction this which was the Bultmannian rejection of historical knowledge which merely left a silhouette of a person, but not many details.
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What are the dates for Johannes Weiss?
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1863-1914
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What is Johannes Weiss notable for in terms of Wrights theory? And what other thing is he notable for?
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He is notable for Wright because him along with Schweitzer were like the first two guys to think that Jesus should be placed in his Jewish context. He is also notable for being the one to assign the name 'Q' to the Jesus sayings
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What are Schweitzer's dates?
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1875-1965
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If Bultmann claimed that no portrait was possible of Jesus, what did Schweitzer claim?
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That his predecessors had painted the portrait wrong
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Under which emperor what Jesus born, and under which one was he crucified?
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he was born under Augustus Caesar, and he died under his successor Tiberius
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According to Wright, what did many of the 16th century reformers do with the gospels?
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Well they sought timeless truths and thus they went to the epistles for those and thus could make little use of the gospels except for the fact that they provide mini epistles of Jesus opposing the legalistic religion of pharisees and such
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Wright believes that the reformers had very thorough ideas as to why Jesus died, but failed in what other related question?
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Why did Jesus live?
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For many conservative orthodox Christians what is the only thing really required for the bible to say?
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That Jesus had been born of a virgin, (at any time in human history, and from any race), lived a sinless life, died a sacrificial death, and risen again three days later.
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If the main purpose of Jesus is simply to die on the cross to fulfill some type of atonement theory, why does this look silly from the life of Jesus?
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Because then it simply looks as though he is trying to egg on the establishment in order to get himself crucified so that the abstract atonement could be put into place.
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What is Melanchthon famous for saying concerning the historical Jesus?
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This is to know Christ, to know his benefits...unless one knows why Christ took upon himself human flesh and was crucified, what advantage would accrue from having learned his life's history?
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In what ways are the gospels threatening for some of the reformers?
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Because the reformers focus on the abstract gospel message 'for me' could be challenged by the specificity, the historical unrepeatableness of the gospels
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Who is the first scholar said to look at the story of Jesus critically? (The first to question the image of the icon?)
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Hermann Samuel Reimarus 1694-1768
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What was Reimarus' goal when he was writing his work on the historical Jesus?
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He wanted to destroy Christianity by proving that it was based on false historical evidence.
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What did Reimarus think that the role of Jesus was?
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Simply as a revolutionary, nothing more
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What were Reimarus' writing known as?
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His "fragments" which were published posthumously
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What was the purpose of the early 'lives of Jesus' created by people like Reimarus?
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They were created not to bring the church back to a historical reality. Rather they were meant to show the poverty of the foundations that the church was based upon and thus provide the evidence that reason was the only sure way to find truth. However when the writers pulled back the curtain the poverty that was expected has been turned into the wealth which is the gospel
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Who wrote the "Life of Jesus Critically Examined"?
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David Friedrich Strauss
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Where does David Friedrich Strauss fit into the chronology of the history of the historical Jesus?
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He is one of the writers of the liberal 'lives' of Jesus after Reimarus but before Schweitzer
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How did Schweitzer react to the writing of Reimarus?
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He said that he was right to see Jesus in his first century Jewish context, but wrong to see him as a revolutionary, rather the first century phenomenon which Jesus shared with his contemporaries was 'apocalyptic', the expectation of the end of the world.
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What is Schweitzer's main thesis concerning who Jesus was?
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Jesus was daring and bold and dreamed the impossible dream of the kingdom and bringing about the end of world history. When this did not happen and the great wheel of history refused him, he threw himself upon it, and was crushed in the process, though he did thus turn the wheel. The failure of his hopes sets his people free from Jewish shackles to become the hope of the new world
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What are the 'ways' or 'roads' that one can travel when doing critical research of Jesus?
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The 'Wredestrasse' insists that we know comparatively little about Jesus, and that the gospels are only about the early church. Or the "Schweitzerstrasse" which places Jesus within the context of apocalyptic Judaism, and thus postulates far more continuity between Jesus and the early church and the gospels.
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Who is the great turning point in the history of the "Quest" for the historical Jesus?
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Albert Schweitzer
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What happened in the period after Schweitzer in terms of scholarship over the historical Jesus?
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There was a half a century of silence where theologians struggled with the material and many withheld opinions over the historical nature of Jesus. In fact they thought that the 'preached Christ' should be the focal point of history for if history was the source about Jesus then historians would be the only priests.
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What did Bultmann think about the Jesus we find in the gospels?
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That its nearly impossible to know anything about him and that the stories in the gospels that appear to say something about the historical Jesus are merely faith stories of the early church read back into his life.
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How was Bultmann echoing Melancthon in his exhortations?
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He said that the gospels are faith-documents, not history books. Thus like Melancthon Bultmann sought to direct attention to faith rather than to 'bare facts'
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Who kickstarted the 'new quest for the historical Jesus'?
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Bultmann's pupil Ernst Kasemann.
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Why did Ernst Kasemann believe the church must return to a study of the historical Jesus?
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Kasemann was aware of idealism and docetism, and insisted that if Jesus was not rooted in 1 century Judaism, then he could be pulled in any direction, might be the hero of any theological or political programme (Kasemann had in mind here the anti jewish theologies devised by the Nazis)
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