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The Historic Mission of Jesus

A Constructive Re-Examination of the Eschatological Teaching in the Synoptic Gospels

CJ Cadoux author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:James Clarke & Co Ltd

Published:1st Sep '02

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First published in 1941, The Historic Mission of Jesus is one of the landmark texts on the life of Jesus, his relation to the Father and his earthly task. Counter to the prevailing scepticism of the reliability of the Synoptic sources chronicling Jesus' life, Cadoux presents a sweeping yet detailed illustration of the evidence, while advancing theories for its interpretation that would go on to be significant facets of New-Testament study. While not going to the same lengths as Albert Schweitzer, Cadoux nevertheless advances a thoroughly eschatological interpretation of Jesus' self-perception. He thus emphasises the nation-wide character of his appeal, his concern for the redemption of the Gentiles through Israel's fulfilment of the universalistic aspirations of the Old Testament, his eager endeavour to avert a military clash between the Jews and the Roman Empire, and his early expectation of being accepted and loyally followed by his fellow-countrymen as a whole. The result is a prime early example of the revival of interest in the historical Jesus on theological grounds.

Out of wartorn England - significantly, perhaps, from the pen of an uncompromising pacifist - there comes now a highly adequate treatment of that most baffling religious problem, the eschatological thinking of Jesus. . . . This volume. . . may well be considered as indispensable to the serious student of the New Testament simply because it so comprehensively reviews the Synoptic evidence and the best recent scholarship in the area. Albert Leland Jamison, in The Journal of Religion, 1942

ISBN: 9780227170625

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 578g

416 pages