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Jesus and the Rise of Nationalism - A New Quest for the Nineteenth Century Historical Jesus (Hardcover)
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Jesus and the Rise of Nationalism - A New Quest for the Nineteenth Century Historical Jesus (Hardcover)
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The great German theologian Albert Schweitzer famously drew a line
under 19th century historical Jesus research by showing that at the
bottom of the well lay not the face of Joseph's son, but rather the
features of all the New Testament scholars who had tried to reveal
his elusive essence. In his thoughtful and provocative new book,
Halvor Moxnes takes Schweitzer's observation much further: the
doomed 'quest for the historical Jesus' was determined not only by
the different personalities of the seekers who undertook it, but
also by the social, cultural and political agendas of the countries
from which their presentations emerged. Thus, Friedrich
Schleiermacher's Jesus was a teacher, corresponding with the role
German teachers played in Germany's movement for democratic
socialism. Ernst Renan's Jesus was by contrast an attempt to
represent the 'positive Orient' as a precursor to the civilized
self of his own French society. Scottish theologian G A Smith
demonstrated in his manly portrayal of Jesus a distinctively
British liberalism and Victorian moralism. Moxnes argues that one
cannot understand any 'life of Jesus' apart from nationalism and
national identity: and that what is needed in modern biblical
studies is an awareness of all the presuppositions that underlie
presentations of Jesus, whether in terms of power, gender, sex and
class. Only then, he says, can we start to look at Jesus in a way
that does him justice.
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