Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Stevenson, Austin

Titel

The self-understanding of Jesus: a metaphysical reading of historical Jesus studies

Ist Teil von

• Scottish journal of theology, 2019-08, Vol.72 (3), p.291-307

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This article argues that the quests for the historical Jesus have largely operated with an understanding of history hindered by a severely constricted range of divine and human possibilities. By outlining human ‘self-understanding’ as a historiographical question, it emphasises the determinative role in historical judgement played by the historian's assumptions about the range of possibility available to the processes of human thought. Highlighting three particular concerns that historians tend to connect to ‘docetism’, it suggests a couple of ways that metaphysical and theological forms of reasoning could expand the horizon of possibilities available to historical Jesus scholarship in a way that will augment access to the historical figure of Jesus.