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Overview
The Contemporary Jesus is the first critical study integrating a contemporary understanding of Jesus in our history. The book imaginatively engages many views of Jesus: an apocalyptic Jesus, gnostic Jesus, Buddhist Jesus, Pauline Jesus, Crossan's Jesus, and the Catholic, Protestant, and nihilistic views found in writers such as Dante, Joyce, Milton, Blake, Dostoyevsky, and Nietzsche. Altizer also examines the Jesus who emerges from the Jesus Seminar.Synopsis
The Contemporary Jesus is the first critical study integrating a contemporary understanding of Jesus in our history. The book imaginatively engages many views of Jesus: an apocalyptic Jesus, gnostic Jesus, Buddhist Jesus, Pauline Jesus, Crossan's Jesus, and the Catholic, Protestant, and nihilistic views found in writers such as Dante, Joyce, Milton, Blake, Dostoyevsky, and Nietzsche. Altizer also examines the Jesus who emerges from the Jesus Seminar.
Booknews
A critical study integrating theological and historical conceptualizations of Jesus from a radical theological perspective. Altizer (religious studies, State U. of New York, Stony Brook) engages with a "godhead" manifested through the Apocalyptic vision, the gnostic tradition, Catholicism, Protestantism, Nihilism, and Buddhism, using as a source the works of Dante, Joyce, Milton, Blake, Dostoyevsky and Nietzche. Includes a critical analysis of the Jesus Seminar. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.