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Revelation, ch. 2, para.8); and R. Swinburn, "Could God Become Man?" in The Philosophy in Christianity, edited by Godfrey Vesey, CUP, 1989, 4 240 240 See for instance Eric Mascall, Jesus: Who He Is And How We Know Him, Longman & Todd, London, 1985, 38-3 241 241 Hick, Ibid, 3 242 242 A.. Harnack, What is Christianity?, Trans. by Thomas B. Saunders, G.P. Putnan's Son's, London, 1901, 154 243 243 Ibid, 15 244 244 Ibid, 135-13 245 245 A,.S. Peake, "The Messiah and the Son of Man", Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 8 (1942), 3-32 246 246 Harnack, Ibid, 15 247 247 Ibid, 155, here Harnack is following his teacher A. Ritchl to whom Jesus's divine Sonship lies in complete unity of Jesus's will with the will of God in the establishment of an "ethical kingdom of God", see Ritschl, The Christian Doctrine of Justification and Reconciliation, T & T Clark, Edinburgh, 1902, 48, 451ff; also see G. Bornkamm, Jesus of Nazareth, Harper & Row, N.Y., 1960, 169ff and also E. Kasemann, "The Problem of the Historical Jesus", Essays on New Testament Themes, SCM, London, 1965, 44f.; F. Schleiermacher already saw unity of Jesus with God only in the sense of Jesus's "God-Consciousness", which to him was "a veritable existence of God in Him". (The Christian Faith, 96); for more details see his The Christian Faith, Harper & Row, N.Y., 1963, 94-96ff 248 248 Harnack, Ibid, 15 249 249 Ibid, 20 250 250 Ibid, 19 251 251 John Hick, God and the Universe of Faiths, Macmillan, London, 1973, 11 252 252 John Hick, "A Remonstrance in Concluding", in R.J. Hoffmann and G.A. Larue (eds.), Jesus in History and Myth, Prometheus Books, Buffalo, N.Y., 1986, 21 253 253 John Hick, The Metaphor of God Incarnate, 4 254 254 Ibid, 2 255 255 Ibid, 256 256 Ferdinand Christian Baur, The Church History of the First Three Centuries, trans. and edited by Allan Menzies, London, 1878, vol. 1, 45, quoted from W. A. Meeks, The Writings of St. Paul, A Norton Critical Edition, W.W. Norton & Co., NY, 1972, 27 257 257 Meeks, Ibid, 27 258 258 Ibid, 27 259 259 F. Nietzsche, The Dawn of Day, Aphorism 68, trans. by J.M. Kennedy in The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, ed. Oscar Levy, NY, 1909-11, IX, 66-67, quoted in Meeks, Ibid, 288-28 260 260 Nietzsche, The Antichrist, An Attempted Criticism of Christianity, trans. by M. Ludovici in The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, XVI, 178-87, quoted from Meeks, Ibid, 294, also quoted in H. Kung, On Being a Christian, 402 261 261 Meeks, Ibid, 29 262 262 Meeks, Ibid, 29 263 263 Ibi 264 264 Ibid, 30 265 265 G. Bornkamm, Paul, Paulus, Trans. by D.M.G. Stalker, Harper & Row, N.Y., 1969, 230 266 266 See Meeks, Ibid, 176-18 267 267 Ibid, 229-230. For a good discussion of Paul's relationship with the prime apostles (different than Tubingen school's view) see H.J. Schoeps, Paul: The Theology of the Apostle in the Light of Jewish Religious History, Trans. by H. Knights, Philadelphia, 1961, 72ff. There is plenty of material in this connection. See W.L. Knox, St. Paul and the Church of Jerusalem, UP, Cambridge, 1925; A.S. Peake, Paul and the Jewish Christians, UP, Manchester, 1929; W. Schmithals, Paul and James, Trans. by D.M. Barton, SCM Press, London, 1965; J.C. Beker, Paul the 114
Apostle: The Triumph of God in Life and Thought, Philadelphia, 1980; M. Hengel, Between Jesus and Paul, Fortress, Phila., 198 268 268 Ibid, 228-22 269 269 See for instance E. Fuchs, Studies of the Historical Jesus, Trans. by A. Scobie, Naperville, 1964; E. Kasemann's essay on "The Problem of the Historical Jesus", in Essays on the New Testament Themes, Trans. by W. Montague, Naperville, 1964; A. Schweitzer, The Quest of the Historical Jesus, NY, 1968; W.H. Johnson, "Was Paul the Founder of Christianity?", Princeton Theological Review, 5 (1907), 398-422; James Moffat, "Paul and Jesus", Biblical World (Chicago) 32 (1908), 168-73; A.C. Mcgiffert, "Was Jesus or Paul the Founder of Christianity?", American Journal of Theology 13 (1909), 1-20; F.G. Bratton, "Continuity and Divergence in the Jesus-Paul Problem", Journal of Biblical Literature 48 (1929), 149-61; W.C. Robinson, "The Theology of Jesus and the Theology of Paul", Evangelical Quarterly (London) 8 (1936), 373-97; Ray Knight, "Jesus or Paul? In Continuation of Gospels and Epistles", Hibbert Journal 47 (1948), 41-47; Victor Furnish, "The Jesus-Paul Debate: From Baur to Bultman", Bulletin of the John Rylands Library (Manchester) 47 (1964-65), 342-81 270 270 Meeks, Ibid, 31 271 271 Ibid, 31 272 272 Ibid, 32 273 273 M. Buber, Two Types of Faith, trans. by Norman P. Goldhawk, NY, 1951, 196 274 274 Leo Baeck, Romantic Religion, trans. by W. Kaufmann in Judaism and Christianity, Philadelphia, 196 275 275 H. J. Schoeps, Paul, The Theology of the Apostle in the Light of Jewish Religious History, trans. by Harold Knight, Phila., 196 276 276 Meeks, Ibid, 32 277 277 See W.R. Inge, "The Mystical Element in St. Paul's Theology", Expositor 5th series, 4 (1896), 114-23; W.W. Evert, "Paul and Mystery Religions", Bibliotheca Sacra (NY) 80 (1923), 49-58; for discussion of Paul's mysticism see J.G. Bishop, "Psychological Insights in St. Paul's Mysticism", Theology (London) 78 (1975), 122-23; F.F. Bruce, "Was Paul a Mystic?", Reformed Theological View (Australia) 34/3 (1975), 66-7 278 278 See Adolf Deissmann, Paul, A Study in Social and Religious History, trans. by W.E. Wilson, 2nd, rev. ed., NY, 1926, chaps. V, VI, VII 279 279 Meeks, Ibid, 37 280 280 A. Schweitzer, The Mysticism of St. Paul, vii 281 281 Ibid, 4 282 282 Bultmann, "New Testament and Mythology", in Kerygma and Myth edited by Hans W. Bartsch, trans. by R.H. Fuller, 2nd ed., London, 1964, 283 283 Meeks, Ibid, 41 284 284 See for details A.C. McGiffert, A History of Christian Thought, Charles Scribner's Sons, NY, 1960, vol.1, 26-2 285 285 Ibid, 414-1 286 286 John K. Riches, A Century of New Testament, Trinity Press International, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania,1993, 125 287 287 See E. Kasemann, Perspectives on Paul, London, 197; E. P. Sanders, Paul and Palestinian Judaism, London, 1977; also see Riches, Ibid, 125-14 288 288 J.G. Machen, The Origins of Paul's Religion, Eedermans, Grand Rapid, Mich., 1970, 136-3 289 289 Ibid, 15 290 290 R.H. Lightffot, History and Interpretation in the Gospels, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1935, 2 291 291 Ibid, 3 292 292 Ibid, 3 293 293 A. Grillmeier, Christ in Christian Tradition, Trans. by John Bowden, John Knox Press, Atlanta, 1975, Vol: 1, 3; see also Martin Kahler, The So-called Historical Jesus and the Historic, Biblical Christ, edited and trans. by C.E. Braaten, Fortress, Phila., 1964. For a renewal of scholarly concern about the historical Jesus see James M. 115
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