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" Lord or legend? : "
Gregory A. Boyd and Paul Rhodes Eddy.
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BL
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956656
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b711026
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| Main Entry
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Boyd, Gregory A.,1957-
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Lord or legend? : : wrestling with the Jesus dilemma /\ Gregory A. Boyd and Paul Rhodes Eddy.
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Grand Rapids, MI :: BakerBooks,, ©2007.
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183 pages ;; 22 cm
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0801065054
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: 9780801065057
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-169) and indexes.
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Introduction: The Jesus of History and the Challenge of Faith -- Part One: Jesus, History, and Legend-Making -- Miraculous Claims and the Critical Mind: Can Intelligent People Still Believe in the Supernatural? -- A Most Unexpected Legend: How Paganized Was First-Century Palestinian Judaism? -- "Long, Long Ago and Far, Far Away?" The Question of Paul and the Historical Jesus -- Rising Gods, Legendary Heroes, and Divinized Teachers: How Unique Is the Jesus Story? -- Oral Traditions and Legend-Making: How Reliable Were the Early Church's Oral Traditions about Jesus? -- Part Two: The Gospels and Ten Tests of Historical Reliability -- Following the Paper Trail: The Questions of Textual Reconstruction, Literary Genre, and Historical Intent -- Who, When, and Why? The Questions of Historical Position and Bias -- Superfluous and Self-Incriminating Testimony: The Questions of Incidental and Self-Damaging Details -- How Am I Supposed to Believe That? The Questions of Consistency and Plausibility -- Jesus and Ancient Non-Christian Writers: The Question of Literary Corroboration -- Excavating Jesus: The Question of Archaeological Confirmation -- Myth Incarnate: The Lord of Legend and Love.
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The Christian apologetic of "Lord, Liar, or Lunatic" made famous by C.S. Lewis has gained recent skepticism. Many twenty-first-century critics of Christianity believe the biblical portrait of Jesus Christ is based on myth. Lord or Legend? puts skeptics' claims to the test against multiple scholarly disciplines, including history, ethnography, anthropology, and folklore, to uncover fascinating truths about the historical Jesus. Authors Gregory A. Boyd and Paul Rhodes Eddy address pressing questions like: Was first-century Judaism an environment for pagan mythological beliefs? How are the Gospels accurate if they originated through oral tradition? Do similarities between Jesus and other myths discredit Christianity? Are the Scriptures historically accurate? Biased? Translated accurately? Do archeological findings support or refute biblical accounts? - Publisher.
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Jesus Christ-- Historicity.
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Jesus Christ.
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Apologetics.
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Apologetics.
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Authority-- Religious aspects.
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Historicity of Jesus Christ.
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Bible-- Evidences, authority, etc.
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Bible.
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232.9/08
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BT1103.B69 2007
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Eddy, Paul R.
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