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The historical Christ and the Jesus of faith : the incarnational narrative as history / C. Stephen Evans

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996Description: xi, 386 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0198263821 (alk. paper)
  • 019826397X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 232.908 EVA H 20
LOC classification:
  • BT205 .E83 1996
Contents:
1. The incarnational narrative and the problem of its historicity 2.Modernity's responses to the problem 3. Why the events matter : 1.History, meaning, and myth 4. Why the events matter : 2. God's atoning work 5. Awareness of the narrative : Do we need to know? 6. Is the incarnation logically possible? 7. MIracles : their possibility and knowability 8. Critical history and the supernatural 9. Epistemology and the ethics of belief 10. The incarnational narrative as historical : evidence for belief 11. Th e incarnational narrative as historical : grounds for belief 12. Putting the two stories together 13. Historical scholarship and the layperson : a case study 14. Conclusions : deeper encounters with historical scholarship and prospects for apologetics
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [356]-367) and index

1. The incarnational narrative and the problem of its historicity
2.Modernity's responses to the problem
3. Why the events matter : 1.History, meaning, and myth
4. Why the events matter : 2. God's atoning work
5. Awareness of the narrative : Do we need to know?
6. Is the incarnation logically possible?
7. MIracles : their possibility and knowability
8. Critical history and the supernatural
9. Epistemology and the ethics of belief
10. The incarnational narrative as historical : evidence for belief
11. Th e incarnational narrative as historical : grounds for belief
12. Putting the two stories together
13. Historical scholarship and the layperson : a case study
14. Conclusions : deeper encounters with historical scholarship and prospects for apologetics

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