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The Human Christ
by Charlotte Allen
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| The quest for the "historical" Jesus -- the human figure who became Christ -- has been a preoccupation of scholars since the 17th century. Now journalist Charlotte Allen traces the fascinating history and characters who have undertaken these quests and their ideological bound methods. In The Human Christ, you will read about the many different historical pictures of Jesus that have emerged over the past 300 years: from Jesus the Deist rationalist of the 18th century to Jesus the sage of the late 20th century. Allen also uncovers the huge "life-of-Christ" industry, a combination of piety, exotica, and even soft-core pornography that flourished from the mid-19th to our day. With the authority of a historian and the clarity of an journalist, Allen shows us that the quest for the historical Jesus tells us more about the intellectual and popular fads of our times, than it does about the significance of Jesus. Essential reading for anyone writing or speaking on Jesus and eschatology. |
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About the Author: Charlotte Allen is a freelance writer and contributing editor at Lingua Franca. She lives in Washington, D.C. |
Price: $26
Hardcover (1998), 383 pp.
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Contents
Introduction
1. Jesus' Jewish World
2. The Quarrels of the Ancients
3. The Paradigm Shift
4. The Talk of Coffee Houses
5. A German Philosophical Hero
6. The Triumph of Materialism
7. A Good Liberal
8. Sex and Death for the Cinema
9. The Liberal Church Crumbles
10. Avant-Garde Fashions
11. The Return
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