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A 7 page paper. Following a brief introduction, this essay reports and discusses the different approaches that have been used in the quest for the historical Jesus. The essay then discusses the Christ of faith, Jesus as God. the writer also comments on the Hypostatic Union. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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and divinity. This and many other Scriptural facts may not be fully understood by humans or not understood at all but that does not change their truth. That is what
faith is about - believing without tangible evidence. Even so, Went (2002) pointed out: "our faith is based upon a historical figure for whom more evidence exists than for Julius
Caesar." Documents from secular historians during the years of Jesus life and shortly thereafter testify to the fact that Jesus was a real man who lived (Drum, 1910). Geisler (1999)
reports it was Gotthold Lessing, who in the mid- to late-1700s "laid the ground for the separation of the Christ of faith from the Jesus of history" although it is
Martin Kahler whose writings in the late 1800s and early 1900s are most often cited as making the distinction between the historical Jesus and Christ of faith (Geisler, 1999). Here
is what some of the early scholars said. Lessing called the divide between the historical Jesus and the Christ of faith an "ugly ditch" he could not get across (Geisler,
1999). Kahler said it was a gulf that could not be closed and that he had to "deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith" (Geisler, 1999). Kierkegaard said
one had to make a leap of faith because history was unimportant in the quest for Jesus (Geisler, 1999). Cain (1999) reports the Quest for the Historical Jesus actually
emerged from an article of the same title written by Albert Schweitzer in the very early 1900s. Cain (1999) explains that the quest is based on: "the Galilean Jewish Jesus
of the first century was quite different from the Jesus who has come to be interpreted through the theology, creeds, art, liturgy, [etc.]." And, also, the only way we can
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