Kenneth Cragg

Christian Jesus

Faith in the Finding

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Produktbeschreibung

There are so many versions of "The man from Nazareth" as to make The Christian Jesus liable to seem a pretentious or aggressive title. That a "Christian Jesus" exists for historic faith is not in doubt - and is explored here with the help both of poetry and theology. Diverse versions of the "Christian Jesus" do not preclude the sundry cases for the "Muslim Jesus," the "Hindu Jesus," and most of all for the "Jewish Jesus." Indeed the third, during the last half century, has been vigorously presented by Jewish scholarship. It was from the very heart of "Jewishness" and its "Messiah" that he and his immediate Jewish disciples gave to human history a confidence concerning "God in Christ" - a confidence called "Christian." New Testament writings tell a faith - of which Jesus is the theme and center - read as the incidence of the divine in the human, the earthly happening of the eternal intention. Of a "Jesus" who has well-nigh innumerable descriptives, this is the Christian one. Some schola

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Liverpool University Press
• Seitenzahl: 141
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 227g
• ISBN-13: 9781898595427
• ISBN-10: 1898595429
• Artikelnr.: 25004103

Autorenporträt

Kenneth Cragg was first in Jerusalem in 1939, and subsequently became deeply involved in areas of faith between Semitic religions under the stress of current politics. He later pursued doctoral studies in Oxford where he first graduated and became Prizeman' in Theology and Moral Philosophy, and where he is now an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College. He was a Bishop in the Anglican Jurisdiction in Jerusalem and elsewhere in the Middle East, and played ecclesiastical roles in Africa and India. A Certain Sympathy of Scriptures is a companion book to his Readings in the Qur'an (1988; 1999), and more broadly to his Faiths in Their Pronouns: Websites of Identity (2002). Other works by Bishop Cragg, and published by Sussex Academic Press, include: With God in Human Trust -- Christian Faith and Contemporary Humanism; The Weight in the Word -- Prophethood, Biblical and Quranic; and The Education of Christian Faith.