Jesus Remembered · Christianity in the Making, vol. 1 by Dunn, James D.G. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Book Cover Title Page Contents Preface 1. Christianity in the Making Part One: Faith and the Historical Jesus 2. Introduction 3. The (Re-)Awakening of Historical Awareness

3.1. The Renaissance 3.2. The Reformation 3.3. Perceptions of Jesus

4. The Flight from Dogma

4.1. The Enlightenment and Modernity 4.2. Exit Revelation and Miracle 4.3. The Liberal Jesus 4.4. The Sources for Critical Reconstruction of the Life of Jesus 4.5. The Collapse of the Liberal Quest 4.6. Jesus in Sociological Perspective 4.7. Re-Enter the Neo-Liberal Jesus 4.8. Conclusion

5. The Flight from History

5.1. The Historical-Critical Method 5.2. The Search for an Invulnerable Area for Faith 5.3. Rudolf Bultmann (1884-1976) 5.4. The Second Quest 5.5. A Third Quest? 5.6. Postmodernism

6. History, Hermeneutics and Faith

6.1. An Ongoing Dialogue 6.2. The Necessity of Historical Inquiry 6.3. What Can History Deliver? 6.4. Hermeneutical Principles 6.5. When Did a Faith Perspective First Influence the Jesus Tradition? 6.6. Two Corollaries

Part Two: From the Gospels to Jesus 7. The Sources

7.1. External Sources 7.2. The Earliest References to Jesus 7.3. Mark 7.4. Q 7.5. Matthew and Luke 7.6. The Gospel of Thomas 7.7. The Gospel of John 7.8. Other Gospels 7.9. Knowledge of Jesus' Teaching and Agrapha

8. The Tradition

8.1. Jesus the Founder of Christianity 8.2. The Influence of Prophecy 8.3. Oral Tradition 8.4. The Synoptic Tradition as Oral Tradition: Narratives 8.5. The Synoptic Tradition as Oral Tradition: Teachings 8.6. Oral Transmission 8.7. In Summary

9. The Historical Context

9.1. Misleading Presuppositions about 'Judaism' 9.2. Defining 'Judaism' 9.3. The Diversity of Judaism -- Judaism from Without 9.4. Jewish Factionalism -- Judaism from Within 9.5. The Unity of First-Century Judaism 9.6. Galilean Judaism 9.7. Synagogues and Pharisees in Galilee? 9.8. The Political Context 9.9. An Outline of the Life and Mission of Jesus

10. Through the Gospels to Jesus

10.1. Can a Further Quest Hope to Succeed? 10.2. How to Proceed? 10.3. Thesis and Method

Part Three: The Mission of Jesus 11. Beginning from the Baptism of John

11.1. Why Not 'Beginning from Bethlehem'? 11.2. John the Baptizer 11.3. John's Baptism 11.4. John's Message 11.5. Jesus' Anointing at Jordan 11.6. The Death of John 11.7. Jesus Tempted

12. The Kingdom of God

12.1. The Centrality of the Kingdom of God 12.2. How Should 'the Kingdom of God' Be Understood? 12.3. Three Key Questions 12.4. The Kingdom to Come 12.5. The Kingdom Has Come 12.6. Solving the Riddle

13. For Whom Did Jesus Intend His Message?

13.1. Hearing Jesus 13.2. The Call 13.3. To Israel 13.4. To the Poor 13.5. To Sinners 13.6. Women 13.7. Gentiles 13.8. Circles of Discipleship

14. The Character of Discipleship

14.1. Subjects of the King 14.2. Children of the Father 14.3. Disciples of Jesus 14.4. Hungering for What Is Right 14.5. Love as Motivation 14.6. Forgiving as Forgiven 14.7. A New Family? 14.8. Open Fellowship 14.9. Living in the Light of the Coming Kingdom

Part Four: The Question of Jesus' Self-Understanding 15. Who Did They Think Jesus Was?

15.1. Who Was Jesus? 15.2. Royal Messiah 15.3. An Issue during Jesus' Mission 15.4. A Role Declined 15.5. Priestly Messiah 15.6. The Prophet 15.7. 'A Doer of Extraordinary Deeds' 15.8. Teacher

16. How Did Jesus See His Own Role?

16.1. Eschatological Agent 16.2. God's Son 16.3. Son of Man: The Issues 16.4. Son of Man: The Evidence 16.5. Son of Man: A Hypothesis

16.6. Conclusion Part Five: The Climax of Jesus' Mission 17. Crucifixus sub Pontio Pilato

17.1. The Tradition of Jesus' Last Week 17.2. Why Was Jesus Executed? 17.3. Why Did Jesus Go Up to Jerusalem 17.4. Did Jesus Anticipate His Death 17.5. Did Jesus Give Meaning to His Anticipated Death? 17.6. Did Jesus Hope for Vindication after Death

18. Et Resurrexit

18.1. Why Not Stop Here? 18.2. The Empty Tomb Tradition 18.3. Appearance Tradition 18.4. The Tradition within the Traditions 18.5. Why 'Resurrection'? 18.6. The Final Metaphor

19. Jesus Remembered

19.1. A New Perspective on the Jesus Tradition 19.2. What Can We Say about Jesus' Aim(s)? 19.3. The Lasting Impact of Jesus' Mission

Abbreviations Bibliography Indices

Index of Authors Index of Subjects Index of Scriptures and Other Ancient Writings

Old Testament New Testament Apocrypha Pseudepigrapha and Early Patristic Works