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The Interest in Life of Jesus Theology as a Paradigm for the Social History of Biblical Criticism1
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Historians, including biblical critics, are not known for exposing themselves to the same kind of historical criticism that they apply to everything and everyone else. The historical situation of contemporary exegetes and their social conditions usually remain uninvestigated and thus—from a historical-critical and socio-historical perspective—unquestioned. The various hermeneutical inquiries that different forms of liberation theology have recently developed provide a beginning for such a necessary self-study. They need, however, to be expanded.
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43 Here Huarte went beyond the royal office in its constitutional sense and presented a paradigm for the great personality, the highest genius, which the pedagogical scrutiny and effort had to find and form. This is proven by the fact that Huarte followed this discussion of Jesus with that of Adam as royal person.
44 Huarte wanted to show that Jesus, already through his nature, even without using supernatural wisdom could drive out evil and choose the good. Jesus was for Huarte the true human, divine and miraculous already in his natural appearance and action, and therefore the exemplar for the ingenious personality. This was stated without the cynicism of Machiavelli found in the Prince. This ingenious personality, moreover, was to function as subject and instrument of educational sensitivity and skill.
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67 Not only in the heritage of Christoph Blumhardt (1842–1919), Hermann Kutter (1863–1931), and Leonhard Ragaz (1868–1945) as is often claimed.
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69 Given the fact that the literature of and on the New Quest in the meantime is legion, and also because of the existence of such a thorough journal of it as Werner Georg Kümmel, Dreiβig Jahre Jesusforschung (1950–1980) (BBB 60; Königstein/Bonn: Hanstein, 1985Google Scholar), a comprehensive compilation of Kümmel's reviews on the question in ThR, I have refrained from a detailed report and have drawn the larger picture instead. I should, however, mention a sample of contributions to the New Quest (besides Robinson, New Quest) including not only strictly historical-critical studies but also those of a more systematic-theological nature: Ernst Käsemann, “Das Problem des historischen Jesus,” ZThK 51 (1954) 125–53Google Scholar in idem, Exegetische Versuche und Besinnungen (2 vols.; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1960–1964) 1. 187–214Google Scholar; idem, “Sackgassen im Streit um den historischen Jesus,” in idem, Exegetische Versuche und Besinnungen, 2. 31–68; Bornkamm, Gunther, Jesus von Nazareth (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1956Google Scholar) ET: Jesus of Nazareth (New York: Harper, 1975Google Scholar); Ebeling, Gerhard, “Die Frage nach dem historischen Jesus und das Problem der Christologie,” ZThK, Beiheft 1 (1959) 14–30Google Scholar in idem, Wort und Glaube (3 vols.; 3d ed.; Tübingen: Mohr, 1960) 1. 19–82; idem; “Kerygma und historischer Jesus,” in idem, Theologie und Verkündigung (Hermeneutische Untersuchungen zur Theologie 1; Tübingen: Mohr, 1962) 19–82Google Scholar; Fuchs, Ernst, Zur Frage nach dem historischen Jesus (Gesammelte Aufsätze 2; Tübingen: Mohr, 1960Google Scholar); Jüngel, Eberhard, Paulus und Jesus (Hermeneutische Untersuchungen zur Theologie 2; Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1962Google Scholar); Marxsen, Willi, “Zur Frage nach dem historischen Jesus,” ThLz 87 (1962) 575–80Google Scholar; Pannenberg, Wolfhart, Grundzüge der Christologie (Gütersloh: Mohn, 1964Google Scholar) ET: Jesus, God and Man (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1977Google Scholar); Küng, Hans, Die Kirche (Ökumenische Forschungen 1.1; Freiburg: Herder, 1967) esp. 57–99Google Scholar, ET: The Church (New York: Sheed & Ward, 1967Google Scholar); idem and Lapide, Pinchas, Jesus im Widerstreit: Ein jüdisch-christlicher Dialog (Stuttgart: Calwer Verlag, 1976Google Scholar); Küng, Hans, Christ-Sein (Munich/Zurich: Piper, 1974) esp. 111–401Google Scholar; ET: On Being a Christian (Garden City: Doubleday, 1976Google Scholar); Braun, Herbert, Jesus: Der Mann aus Nazareth und seine Zeit (Themen der Theologie 1; Stuttgart: Kreuz, 1969Google Scholar) ET: Jesus of Nazareth: The Man and His Time (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1979Google Scholar); Schillebeeckx, Edward, Jezus het verhaal van een levende (Bloemendaal: Nelissen, 1974Google Scholar) ET: Jesus: An Experiment in Christology (New York: Seabury, 1979Google Scholar); Moltmann, Jürgen, Der Weg Jesu Christi: Christologie in messianischen Dimensionen (Munich: Kaiser, 1989Google Scholar); Kee, Howard C., Jesus in History: An Approach to the Study of the Gospels (New York/Atlanta: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1970Google Scholar); idem, What Can We Know about Jesus? Understanding Jesus Today (Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990Google Scholar); Gnilka, Joachim, Jesus von Nazareth: Botschaft und Geschichte (HThKNT, suppl. 3; Freiburg: Herder, 1990Google Scholar); Marquardt, Friedrich-Wilhelm, Das christliche Bekenntnis zu Jesus, dem Juden: Eine Christologie (2 vols.; Munich: Kaiser, 1990–1991Google Scholar); Jongz, Marinus de, Jesus, the Servant-Messiah (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 1991Google Scholar).
70 The attempts of the New Quest did not remain without criticism, see, e.g., Bultmann, Rudolf, Das Verhältnis der urchristlichen Christusbotschaft zum historischen Jesus (Heidelberg: Winter, 1961) 5–27Google Scholar; Barth, Karl, “How My Mind Has Changed,” EvTh 20 (1960) 97–106Google Scholar; Georgi, Dieter, “Bleibende Aufgaben, die uns Rudolf Bultmann stellt,” Evangelische Zeitstimmen 59/60 (1971) 66–76Google Scholar; Schmithals, Walter, Jesus Christus in der Verkiindigung der Kirche (Neukirchen: Neukirchener Verlag, 1972Google Scholar); Schulz, Siegfried, “Die neue Frage nach dem historischen Jesus,” in Baltensweiler, Heinrich and Reicke, Bo, eds., Neues Testament und Geschicte. Historische Geschehen und Deutung im Neuen Testament. Oscar Cullmann zum 70. Geburtstag (Zurich: Theologischer Verlag and Tubingen: Mohr, 1972) 33–42Google Scholar.
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