Energion.com Reader's Guide - Christianity

Students often want to learn about Christianity in general, to examine their faith as a whole, to learn to defend it, or to learn to dialogue with those of other faiths. This reader's guide will present material that is helpful in that quest.

Energion.com Description: [I am the publisher of this book. -- HN] Elgin Hushbeck makes Christian apologetics clear and easy to understand. This book is written for a lay audience, but will also be useful for pastors. It will be especially helpful to college students who are beginning to question their faith. Hushbeck believes in evidentiary apologetics. While he does not hold that one can absolutely prove the Christian faith, but he does believe that there is an abundance of evidence, and that the Christian faith is reasonable.

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From Amazon.com: This new book argues that the four Gospels are closely based on eyewitness testimony of those who knew Jesus. Noted New Testament scholar Richard Bauckham challenges the prevailing assumption that the accounts of Jesus circulated as "anonymous community traditions," asserting instead that they were transmitted in the name of the original eyewitnesses. To drive home this controversial point, Bauckham draws on internal literary evidence, study of personal names in the first century, and recent developments in the understanding of oral traditions.

Jesus and the Eyewitnesses also taps into the rich resources of modern study of memory and cognitive psychology, refuting the conclusions of the form critics and calling New Testament scholarship to make a clean break with this long-dominant tradition. Finally, Bauckham challenges readers to end the classic division between the "historical Jesus" and the "Christ of faith," proposing instead the "Jesus of testimony." Sure to ignite heated debate on the precise character of the testimony about Jesus, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses will be valued by scholars, students, and all who seek to understand the origins of the Gospels.

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