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Bauer's 'Criticism of the Gospel History' is worth a good dozen Lives of Jesus, because his work, as we are only now coming to recognise, after half a century, is the ablest and most complete collection of the difficulties of the Life of Jesus which is anywhere to be found.
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― The Quest of the Historical Jesus: A Critical Study of its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede
― The Quest of the Historical Jesus: A Critical Study of its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede
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ONE OF THE MOST interesting features of the early Christian debates over orthodoxy and heresy is the fact that views that were originally [...] deemed orthodox came to be declared heretical. Nowhere is this more clear than in the case of the first heretical view of Christ—the view that denies his divinity. [...] the very first Christians held to exaltation Christologies which maintained that the man Jesus (who was nothing more than a man) had been exalted to the status and authority of God. The
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― How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
― How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
