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Summing up the historical Jesus debate

By Scot McKnight - Posted on March 28th, 2008
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The historical Jesus debate, as we have seen, has three (or four) phases: the old quest (Reimarus to Schweitzer), the no quest of Bultmann and the new quest following Bultmann, and then what Tom Wright dubbed the "third quest" of the present day, though there are plenty of "new" questers still around. What is the 3d Quest?

First, it is concerned with a more positive appropriation of the Gospels and a less skeptical approach to them.
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