Quest for the historical Jesus

Throughout history, minorities of countries have been faced with oppression. For instance, in America, blacks have often been segregated and punished. One advocator for the end of this treatment was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. after a peaceful protest, Dr. King and his fellow protestors were thrown into a jail in Birmingham. In a letter from King while he was incarcerated in jail to the clergy members of the church, Dr. King used rhetoric such as logos, metaphors, and parallel structure in order…

and the Jesus Seminar has been an ongoing struggle since 1985. The Jesus Seminar, founded by Robert Funk, originated in 1985 as around 70 biblical scholars set out to determine the legitimacy of Jesus’ sayings (Dart). The Seminar focused on the historicity of Jesus using the best methods of science and literary criticism as it pertains to the Bible. Funk believed that the gospel writers had made Jesus into a “larger than life” figure in order to satisfy their religious desires. The Jesus…

The quest for complex subjectivity is a rather complex theme that holds various forms of identity understanding and development for just about anyone who is in search of their own identity. It’s a life-long quest that many have taken and will take in their journey to understand purpose. The quest for complex subjectivity requires one to want more for themselves and the life they are living, but relates more to the search for one’s identity through religion. “It stands for a health self-concept…

As she points out, in the quest for answers one may be tempted to look at the long line of Christian tradition presented by the Orthodox Church for nearly 2,000 years as proof that they have a claim to the title of “true” church. However, the recent discoveries of Gnostic Gospels…

Schweitzer began his quest of the historical Jesus by looking at what he did and said and by putting those pieces together. Albert Schweitzer’s view of religion was that we want to thoroughly think through whatever it is we do and not shy away from the opportunities in front of us so that…

opposed to Jesus being a white man. I merely shouted when James Cone mentioned that “Only a Black Christ can save a Black people-and perhaps white people too.” in my opinion, If we continue to pray to a vision that is not our own as African American people, a vision that has conditioned us to believe that the “White Jesus” is superior to black people, then how can we truly feel that we have meaning and are valuable? By association we empower ourselves when we pray to the “Black Jesus”…

To decide which way of thinking is good or bad one must question other views to strengthen their own. Peter Kreeft is in a dream-like state in Plato’s cave. Socrates come along and presents Kreeft with a quest. The first question Kreeft had to answer was whether to begin or to not begin the quest. Socrates explains that throughout…

If anyone ever doubts the story of Jesus Christ and the accuracy of the New Testament The Case for Christ is the book I would give them. Never have I heard such compelling evidence supporting the Christian faith. Having been a Christian my whole life, raised in a Christian home and going to a Christian School, I have never had reason to doubt the Scriptures. As Christians from birth I believe that we merely accept that the New Testament is true and there are no more questions. We never had to go…

Jesus Seminar Paragraph Marcus J. Borg attests in his book Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time that Jesus comprises two distinct personas; “the pre-Easter Jesus” and “the post-Easter Jesus” (20). He further implies that it is necessary for us to be able to differentiate between these identities, and cites and commends “the work of a group of scholars known as the Jesus Seminar” in dutifully analyzing and clarifying these necessary distinctions (21). Borg states that the Seminar “[has] met…

article: that for him, a big problem for belief in the Christian God is the existence of people who sincerely do not believe in the Christian God. As he says: "Could God really deny salvation to someone just because they're unconvinced by the historical basis for the resurrection?" If Christianity claims that such sincere, 'simple' disbelief is enough to get you judged by God, then Christianity is itself making a morally questionable claim (says Collett). In his view, his not believing is…