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Holy Easter | Home » » The Real Jesus : The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Truth of the Traditional Gospels | | | | | | | Description: | | A book takes on some two hundred scholars who claim that Jesus said only 18% of what the Gospels attribute to him, arguing that the ""real Jesus"" is the one experienced in the present through faith. Reprint. LJ. | | | Features: | |
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| Luke Timothy Johnson | | Paperback:
| 208 pages | | Publisher:
| HarperOne | | Publication Date:
| February 14, 1997 | | ISBN:
| 0060641665 | | Package Length:
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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Great Rebuttal to the Jesus SeminarAug 27, 2010
This is a great work. Johnson helps to point out the problems with those who follow the Jesus Seminar. Clearly written and concise.
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Excellent, but written in the language of a seminarianFeb 02, 2010
This is an excellent rebuttal to the numerous misguided attempts to uncover the "Real Jesus." I use the term "misguided" as this is what the author has chosen to describe the newest forms of heresy which are no more true to Christianity than was Marcionism, gnosticism, or any of the other "isms" which have blighted the West since practically the minute after Jesus' resurrection.
The book is well written and clear, but unless one is accustomed to the language of the seminary it takes a little bit of plowing through it to become comfortable with the terminology. Having a dictionary at hand for the first few days of reading is not a bad idea. But this is well worth it as Mr. Johnson is well suited to counter the media-hyped nonsense of so many "enlightened" theologians who are leading people badly astray. One can only benefit from reading this book - time well spent.
0 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Difficult read, good refutation of Jesus Sem., weak theologyJan 24, 2010
Very scholarly. The first part is pretty slow & hard to get through, but does a thorough rebuttal of many of the Jesus Seminar errors. Later chapters affirm reality of the now living Jesus, but are weak on scripture's ultimate authority & divine inspiration. This is the biggest flaw in the book I think. While weakly affirming truth & power of Jesus it seems to deny & distance itself from the full truth of the Bible. I would read this book with care & let it help you defend attacks on the Word, but then beware of accepting all the author says about correct interpretation of scripture, especially as he seems to float towards reinterpreting scripture in light of our day & age - as the Catholic church (author is Catholic) has in regards to Genesis & evolution for instance.
0 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Left with a sort of empty feeling...Jan 03, 2010
What is to be respected about Johnson is that he carves out a window for the layman to have some idea of what goes on with biblical scholarship inside the academy. The generalizations are of course sweeping, but I imagine many people life myself share the same concerns. He is critical of the presumptuous historical reconstructions of scholars of any label (liberal, conservative, etc.), affirming the limitations imposed by the narrowness of the evidence for the historical Jesus and Christian origins. For example, he states: 'More significantly, there is insufficient evidence to historically assess some of the religious claims made by the first Christians: claims to being possessed by extraordinary power; claims concerning visions and wonders; and above all, the most fundamental of all, the claim concerning the resurrection.' [p. 103]
His polemic seems to be that since the evidence is so scanty, no attempt to find the historical Jesus through any historical critical method is damaging to orthodox Christian faith, like the agenda of some historical Jesus scholarship, especially that of the Jesus Seminar, is to prove. The first two chapters of the book are in fact his explosions on the Jesus Seminar. He gives its history, pokes some fun against its members, sometimes as a whole, at other times toward its individual members. (with more due respect to Crossan, Borg, and Mack) He is even critical of such scholars as Brown and Meier [pp. 100 & 127-33] whom he lauds in turn as 'the embodiment of scholarly respectability and sobriety' and 'as solid and moderate and pious as Historical Jesus scholarship is ever likely to be.'
So what kind of Jesus is the 'real Jesus'? Johnson appears to think that any reconstruction of Jesus's life must stay on par with a 'unique' Jesus, such as that 'uniqueness' is the canon of any plausible reconstruction; furthermore, the 'uniqueness' must be that which the church predicates of him. (see pp. 30, 36, 37f., 49) But he never really develops this idea. Nothing is painted of Jesus's historical life by Johnson until chapter 5. He confirms the basic facts about his life as most scholars support them (execution, teaching, known as a healer) but is skeptical of reconstructing anything else. That which matters for the Christian in Johnson's view is the personal, mystical experience of Jesus resurrected. All this is a bit fuzzy, but that is Johnson's 'truth of the traditional gospels'.
3 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Moving Past History Channel HypeMay 06, 2008
Luke Timothy Johnson's THE REAL JESUS is a refreshing alternative to the tireless proponents of the Jesus Movement, such as Dominic Crosson, who wish to interpret Christ as part of a purely historical movement that can be excavated and analyzed as one would a fossil.
Johnson explains the fallacies of logic inherent in the Jesus Movement by employing first-rate scholarship that reveals the simplistic arguments of New Testament scholars who have become a cottage industry on cable television channels as they seek to de-mystify Christianity.
Johnson's most powerful argument is that the differences among the four gospels, seized upon by Crosson and others, portray a real and complex man--Jesus--who is far more interesting and believable than the static picture advanced by the Jesus Seminar that has, in turn, produced talk of early Christianity as simply a "Jesus Movement." Humanity inherently implies a diversity and complexity in anyone's personality, and the fact that the authors of the New Testament portay Christ from different angles produces a richness and believability within New Testament tradition rather than a one-dimensional portrait of God-become-man.
The gospels, according to Johnson, are models for seeing Christ as a risen, living savior as opposed to a man who can be reconstructed by seminars and pop documentaries based in erroneous scholarship.
If you are puzzled by the plethora of documentaries about the "real" Jesus, Johnson's book explains the origins of the debate and reveals how the gospels were intended to be approached by the early Christian culture that produced them.
Quite simply, this book is excellent and represents a paradigm shift away from the limiting, restrictive beliefs of the Jesus Seminar and Movement.
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