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Article: Jesus' identity.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- December 16, 2008
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In their article "Which Jesus?" (Nov. 4), Beverly Roberts Gaventa and Richard B. Hays present their conclusions from their collaborative work with other biblical scholars and theologians in the Identity of Jesus Project as a "scholarly consensus" in a way that strikes me as misleading, if not disingenuous. Although Gaventa and Hays are hardly indifferent to critical historical study, they clearly place a priori parameters on their conclusions, as the Jesus they identify conforms to what they regard as normative Christian faith. However, when the identity of Jesus is approached first as a historical rather than a confessional question, then the work of the Jesus Seminar, ...
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