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Jesus of Nazareth - A Person Like Us?.

Lenaers, Roger.

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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Chapter One: Less Forgotten Than Ever; The Figure of Jesus in the Modern Historical-Critical Jesus Literature; We know too little about him with certainty; Chapter Two: From Pre-Modern to Modern or from Religion to Atheism; The Origin of the Phenomenon Religion; Myths and Mythology; The Church on the Defensive; What is the future of this amalgam "Christianity" or "Church"?; Conclusion; Chapter Three: Born of a Woman; Mythology in the birth stories; Use or Misuse of the Old Testament; The Unhistorical Character of the Two Birth Narrations. Jesus of Nazareth, (the/a) Son of GodProblems with the Nicaean Profession of Faith; Lex orandi, lex credendi; Chapter Four: From His Baptism to His Death; The Exorcisms; Jesus as Faith Healer; The Nature Miracles in the Synoptic Gospels; Symbolism in John's Gospel; The I-Am Words in John's Gospel; Review of Jesus' Activity; The Words of Jesus in the Synoptic Gospels; Chapter Five: Crucified under Pontius Pilate, Died and Was Buried; Farewell to Expiation and Reconciliation; Back to the Creed; The Non-Historical Character of John's Passion. Questions regarding the Passion story in the synoptic GospelsThe Old Testament Source; The Burial of Jesus; Chapter Six: On the Third Day Arose from the Dead?; Why give up the ancient notions?; The Direct Communications; The "Seeing" which Paul evokes; The Apparition Stories and the "Holy Sepulchre"; Critical Analysis of Mark's Conception; The True Foundation of our Belief in the Resurrection; Chapter Seven: Concluding Observations; Critique of Aslan's Socio-Political Image of Jesus; The Resurrection of Jesus as the Decisive Answer. The Redemption and the Resurrection of the Dead Translated into Modern ConceptsJesus of Nazareth, a Person Like Us?; Yet not only a person like us.

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Jesus Christ--Humanity.
Jesus Christ


RELIGION--Christian Theology--Christology.
Humanity of Jesus Christ

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