The Birth of Christianity: Discovering What Happened In the Years Immediately After the Execution of Jesus: Amazon.de: John Dominic Crossan: Englische Bücher

Taschenbuch: 688 Seiten
Verlag: HarperOne; Auflage: 1 (3. M�rz 1999)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0060616601
ISBN-13: 978-0060616601
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 23,4 x 15,5 x 4,8 cm

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John Dominic Crossan is the leading contemporary scholar on the historical Jesus, which means that his vocation is to look behind, around, and through Christ's resurrection, toward the goal of establishing what can be known about the life of Jesus of Nazareth.

His search for the historical Jesus, however, takes place in the larger context of the life of the church. Among the goals of The Birth of Christianity is to teach readers how our habits of worship have created false gods. To that end, Crossan attempts to unearth the religion's earliest forms. What did Christianity look like, Crossan asks, between the crucifixion and the conversion of Paul? And what might Christianity look like today had Saul never set off toward Damascus?

Crossan's conclusions don't come from newly discovered documents; they come from freshly-minted academic methodologies. He uses anthropology, history, and archaeology to construct his arguments about the essential nature of both Jesus' religion and Paul's. The 25-cent summary of his conclusion is that Jesus did not recognize the dualism between spirit and flesh that formed the basis of Paul's apocalyptic Christianity. In other words, Jesus was more Jewish than Paul.

The ramifications of this argument are huge. Crossan says much of Christian worship--and many of the world's injustices--are based on the dualistic Christ that Paul preached. Though Crossan doesn't bully readers into accepting his conclusions, he does press hard for them to situate their own beliefs in relation to his interpretations of Jesus and Paul. At every point in the evolution of his argument, he asks readers questions such as "How do you understand a human being?" and "What is the character of your God?" Then he proceeds to answer these questions himself. Finally, he tells readers what he thinks these answers mean.

It's an incredibly civilized style of argument--both spiritually and intellectually respectful and always rhetorically engaging. Though The Birth of Christianity weighs in at almost 600 pages of text, you'll probably want to read every word. And after that, you'll probably be hungry for more. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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Of the many recent books about the historical realities of earliest Christianity, none have been more successful than Crossan's Historical Jesus (1992) and Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography (1994). Crossan's new book is the direct sequel to those biographies. He begins it by explaining, as he did not in the previous books, why the endeavor to ascertain what happened in the first century to give rise to the most pervasive of world religions is important. Basically, it is important (necessary is Crossan's word) because the Catholic, as distinguished from Gnostic (not Protestant), belief in the incarnation ("the Word of God made flesh") obliges Christian scholars to consider the material realities within which the faith arose and grew. In the rest of a massive book, Crossan exhibits what his sources are, how he uses them, and what findings they lead him to. This is heavy-duty scholarship, of a sort that usually discourages a popular readership. But Crossan's clear, convivial style and his habit of engaging in dialogue with his sources and other writings make his work dazzling and engrossing, and the novelty of his subject--Christianity after the Crucifixion but before the evangelism of Paul--should draw ancient as well as religious history enthusiasts like sugar draws wasps. Ray Olson -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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Only for the dedicated 30. November 1999

Von Max Simmons

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This book relies so heavily on positions established in earlier books that much of it will likely be missed by those who haven't kept up with Crossan's work. The enormity of this book, too, owes to a lot of detail better relegated to appendices. It's only appeal will be to other scholars, primarily those who might want to dispute Crossan's positions. BIRTH OF CHRISTIANTY does not strike the balance HISTORICAL JESUS did between scholarly rigor and common digestibility. Moreover, it does not, and does not seek to, establish the efficacy of historical Jesus inquiry and/or Crossan's method per se. The best encapsulation there resides in Chs. 5 & 6 in WHO KILLED JESUS? Because Crossan's work can be cumbersome and overwrought, it is unlikely that most of the dismissive critics reporting here have actually grasped his effort. Furthermore, because they are dismissive, it is unlikely they have made the attempt. I would suggest few of his demonizers have read this one at all. The "naturalist" critique is too generalized especially, missing the explicitness with which Crossan, Borg et al announce their presumptions at every turn. More pertinently, they use all the overtly secular methods available to contemporary historiography to interrogate issues of temporal historicity. When agreeing that Jesus must have been a extra-natural healer, or indicating that an event in his life associated with a miracle actually happened, they are at pains to maintain those extraordinary experiences must be encountered on their own terms. Those miracles and healings are not "explained away," and Crossan excoriates those who make the attempt. His work is to peel away stories of events that accrued AFTER the fact, not to invalidate what he finds to have actually occurred before redaction. He does not allow his historiography to step outside its bounds to "debunk" widespread experience of the miraculous Jesus. "Conservative" scions would do well to go to equal lengths to ensure their allegiance to the miraculous Jesus does not serve to "debunk" historiography, but rather to explicate the Christian meaning residing in the historicity of events Crossan and others seek to establish.

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Consistent with other works from Jesus Seminar Fellows... 15. November 1999

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I must admit that Mr. Crossan treats the subject of the historical Jesus quest with much scholarly vigor. While I am convinced of his sincerity and genuine desire for truth, he continues to make the same mistakes that dominate the wealth of works produced by his pen and others of the Jesus Seminar. These mistakes originate with a presupposition of naturalism, leaving their versions of the evidence tainted from the very start. Crossan, Funk, Borg, and others disallow much evidence not by the application of sound research, but because their naturalistic worldview clouds their objectivity, perhaps as a result of not understanding the historian's craft. True historians attempt to examine the evidence without bias, letting it lead them to reasonable, plausible conclusions. True, conservative scholarship has its presuppositions as well. However, they have been much more careful to produce their works with an "evidence to ideology" flavor, instead of allowing the "ideology" to influence their outlook on the "evidence". I notice that your reviewers seem only to be reading liberal authorship. Perhaps to give them a more well-orbed view, they should try reading some more conservative works as well. A review of "Assessing the New Testament Evidence for the Historicity of the Resurrection of Jesus" by Dr. William Lane Craig is a great starting point. If you have difficulty with the trustworthiness of the NT, try reading "The Historical Reliability of the Gospels" by Craig Blomberg. Both texts are available at Amazon.com.

Thought-provoking 2. Oktober 1999

I found the book interesting both in enlightening the issues it deals with, and in explaining how research is done that attempts to piece together a history from the bits and pieces that we have available. I particularly liked the author's directness in acknowledging the core assumptions that his thesis lives and dies with, and then presenting the information that led him to the conclusion. I find the reviews for this book that complain about how the author's conclusions end up following from his assumptions interesting since they are obviously doing what they accuse Crossan of - only without the intervening evidence or counter-argument to his evidence. The response to the book is as interesting as the book itself. My only criticism is that the book seemed longer than necessary; a few of the strands seemed to wander away from the main theme.