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In A New Perspective on Jesus, renowned author James D. G. Dunn critiques the quest for the historical Jesus. He claims that the quest has been largely unsuccessful because it started from the wrong place, began with the wrong assumptions, and viewed the evidence from the wrong perspective. Dunn’s study offers three criticisms of questers’ methods. First, Dunn contends that scholars have failed...

the more convincing because it stands at such odds with the traditional picture of Jesus drawn from the Gospels. Funk’s work and that of the Jesus Seminar are presumably intended to mark some kind of triumph of “the historical Jesus” over “the Christ of faith.” In all this a striking feature is readily apparent: that in the quest of the historical Jesus, faith is a hindrance, faith leads the searcher down the wrong road, faith prevents the searcher from recognizing the real Jesus. Faith is bad, history
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