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Title: The Real Jesus : The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Truth of the Traditional Go by Luke Timothy Johnson ISBN: 0-06-064166-5 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 14 February, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3.92 (39 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: You Have Got To Be Kidding
Comment: Robert J. Miller (a Fellow of the Jesus Seminar) wrote a book entitled "The Jesus Seminar and Its Critics". It is available through Amazon.com. In this book, which has been around for five years, Miller responds to criticism of the seminar.
(Prof. Miller, as well as other fellows of the Seminar, have also responded to critics on the Jesus Seminar website.)

It saddens me that Luke Johnson and his ilk, despite good intentions, attempt to prevent Christianity from being open to new possibilities and ultimately endanger it with increased irrelevance and possible extinction. They remind me of flat-earthers at a geography conference!

Thanks to The Jesus Seminar! It has allowed me to have faith and be a citizen of the 21st century!

Rating: 5
Summary: Exposing the 'Historical Jesus Movements' Misguided Quest
Comment: Luke Timothy Johnson is a heavyweight in Christian scholarship and in this clear and concise book, he exposes the "misguided quest" of the Jesus Seminar. This book strengths lie in that Johnson, a first rate scholar, explains why the quest for a historical Jesus often fails.

The book introduces the Jesus Seminar and some of their most popular teachers and scholars. One reviewer clamims that Johnson is Polemic, but I am curious what he considers polemic. Johnson is not polemic, but honest in his assesments of this group. He informs the reader which Seminar folk are actual scholars and which ones are not.

Johnson then reminds the reader the "limitations of history" in trying to develop a historical Jesus. This area examines the limtations of this social science. He then develops what is "historical about Jesus" and the "Real Jesus." This book is an easy read, yet has enough depth that it adequately deals with such an important topic. While I cannot completely agree with Johnson on every detail, he has produced a great work which is neeeded as a counter-balance to the media circus that surrounds the Jesus Seminar and the often lack of serious scholastic response by "litarlist Bible Christians."

Rating: 5
Summary: Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up?
Comment: I give this book five stars for its historical significance of bring one of the first books to seriously challenge the findings of the Jesus Seminar and other critics of the historic understanding of Jesus.

This is the first book that really opened my eyes to the fact that the dogmas of the Jesus Seminary are those of only a minority of schoalrs, and not representative of the field of Biblical studies as a whole.

I don't think Johnson can be accused of having a conservative bias. A former monk and priest, he is a "Catholic" Modernist, in no way sympathetic to orthodox Christian teaching. This is clear in his tendency to, in my opinion, over-spiritualize the Resurrection of Jesus, not giving due importance to the corporal quality of the event.

A delightful presentation of scholarship and piety, this book is an absolute must-read for those wanting a response to radical criticisms of the traditional Gospels, and a good concise introduction to books on the same theme.

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