Chapter 11 Vocab Flashcards
The philosophical perspective which claims that reason is the sole test of truth
Rationalism
Nineteenth-Century Movement Which sought to interpret the life and miracles of Jesus from a rationalistic perspective.
First Quest for the Historical Jesus
Twentieth-Century period associated especially with Rudolf Butlmann and marked by extreme skepticism concerning what can be known about the historical Jesus
No quest
Sought to demonstrate that the Gospels were not biographies or history but rather theologically motivated fictions.
William Wrede
He identified Jesus as an apocalyptic prophet expecting the imminent end of the world
Johannes Weiss
German scholar who claimed that the Gospels were myths which had developed over the course of time in the early churches
D.F Strauss
German theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician whose Quest for the historical Jesus criticized the First Quest for the Historical Jesus for merely reimagining Jesus as a nineteenth-century rationalist
Albert Schweitzer
German professor whose essay “on the intention of Jesus and his disciples” is often viewed as launching the rationalist first Quest for the Historical Jesus
Herman Samuel Reimarus
The most influential NT scholar of the twentieth century. He sought to “demythologize” the NT in order to discern its true existential message.
Rudolf Bultmann
Set out highly influential philosophical principles which effectively ruled out supernatural intervention in human events
Ernest Troeltsch
A nineteenth century German school of thought which sought to study religion in terms of its evolutionary development from simple polytheistic religions to complex monotheism
History is Religions School
Rejected the historical Jesus quest as misguided, claiming that the only Jesus we can know is the Christ of faith
Martin Kähler
A distinction sometimes drawn between the historical figure of Jesus and the presently reigning Lord of the church,worshiped by believers today
Jesus of history versus Christ of Faith
German professor of the NT and students of Bultmann whose influential essay launched the new quest for the historical Jesus
Ernest Käsemann
A resurgence in historical Jesus research initiated by students of rudolf Bultmann in the 1950’s. It’s origin is usually traced to a 1953 lecture by Ernest Käsemann
New(second) Quest
A name given to the resurgence in the study of the historical Jesus from the 1980s onward, characterized by a variety of new methodologies and cross-disciplinary research
Third Quest
A controversial group established by Robert Funk and John Dominic Crossan which met in the 1980’s and 1990’s and voted on the sayings of Jesus, finding very little of historical value in the Gospels
Jesus seminar
Various Criteria—such as dissimilarity, coherence, and multiple attestation—developed by Jesus scholars to test the authenticity of the words and actions of Jesus
Criteria of Authenticity
Countercultural Hellenistic philosophers who rejected the norms of their society and sought to live a simple, unencumbered life.
Cynics
Cofounder of the Jesus seminar and most influential advocate of Jesus as a cynic -like Jewish peasant
John Dominic Crossan
Someone considered to be filled with or to act in the power of the spirit of god
Charismatic
Perspective advocated by E.P Sanders that first-century Judaism was guided not by a works salvation but by a covenant relationship with god established through grace and maintained by Torah observance
Covenantal Nomism
Referring to the end times, Gods final salvation
Eschatological prophet
Influential member of the Jesus seminar and key advocate of the view that Jesus was a “Spirit person” or Jewish mystic
Marcus Borg
Prolific author of multi volume work - A marginal Jew, which methodically examines the Jesus tradition for historicity. He views Jesus primarily as an eschatological prophet
John P. Meier
Key advocate of the view that Jesus was an eschatological prophet in close continuity with the Judaism of his day
E.P Sanders
Innovative and influential Jesus scholar who views Jesus as an eschatological prophet restoring gods people by leading them out of spiritual exile into a new exodus deliverance
N.T Wright
