Consciousness of the Historical Jesus

Historiography, Theology, and Metaphysics

AvAustin Stevenson,Ian a. McFarland

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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In this book, Austin Stevenson argues that it is not the ‘divinity’ of Jesus that causes problems for historians, but his humanity. To insist that Jesus was fully human, as both theologians and historians do, still leaves us with the question of what it means to be human. It turns out that theologians and historians often have different answers to this question on both a philosophical and a theological register. Furthermore, historians frequently misunderstand the historiographical implications of classical Christology, and thus the compatibility between traditional beliefs about Jesus and critical historical inquiry. Through close engagement with the thought of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–74), this book offers a new path toward the reconciliation of these disciplines by focusing on human knowledge and subjectivity, which are central issues in both historical method and Christology. By interrogating and challenging the normative metaphysical assumptions operative in Jesus scholarship, a range of possibility is opened up for approaches to Jesus that are genuinely historical, but not naturalistic.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-09-18
Mått:156 x 234 x 25 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9780567714428

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Austin Stevenson is Assistant Professor of Theology at Palm Beach Atlantic University, USA.

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This work argues that Thomas Aquinas's participatory metaphysics and epistemology -- including his understanding of prophecy and of Jesus's beatific vision -- can assist powerfully in the resolution of certain potent puzzles about the apocalyptic Jesus, as well as in the development of a historical biblical scholarship that is appropriately critical in facing its own philosophical premises. Persuasive in its applications to Jesus scholarship and sure-handed in its interpretations of Aquinas, the book represents a major advance. It will be of significant help to theologians and biblical scholars seeking ways to enable the erudition of the each discipline to instruct the other.

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PrefaceAbbreviationsIntroduction Part I. Concepts of Being1. The Self-Understanding of Jesus 2. The Metaphysics of Participation3. The Doctrine of the IncarnationPart II. Concepts of Knowing4. The Intelligibility of Participated Being5. Divine Knowledge: An Excursus on Mk 13:326. Acquired Knowledge7. Prophetic Knowledge8. The Beatific VisionConclusion: Rival Traditions of Historical InquiryBibliographyIndex