Jewish Jesus Research and its Challenge to Christology Today

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Jewish Jesus Research and its Challenge to Christology Today is written by Walter Homolka and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004331743 (ISBN 10) and 9789004331747 (ISBN 13).

Historical Jesus research, Jewish or Christian, is marked by the search for origins and authenticity. The various Quests for the Historical Jesus contributed to a crisis of identity within Western Christianity. The result was a move “back to the Jewish roots!” For Jewish scholars it was a means to position Jewry within a dominantly Christian culture. As a consequence, Jews now feel more at ease to relate to Jesus as a Jew. For Walter Homolka the Christian challenge now is to formulate a new Christology: between a Christian exclusivism that denies the universality of God, and a pluralism that endangers the specificity of the Christian understanding of God and the uniqueness of religious traditions, including that of Christianity.