The "Jesus of History" and the "Christ of Faith": In Relation to Matthew's View of Time-Reactions to a New Approach

Authors

Jack Kingsbury, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

Publication Date

9-1-1966

Document Type

Article

Keywords

Jesus, history, church, messiah, salvation, strecker, faith, stendahl, evangelist, suecker

Submission Type

Bible Study; Lecture; Sermon Prep

Abstract

The expression "Jesus of History - Christ of Faith" is a relatively recent idiom, the roots of which can be traced back to a lecture delivered in 1892 by the German systematician Martin Kahler, who entitled his address “The So-Called Historical Jesus and the Historic, Biblical Christ." In the last decade this idiom has come to specify a particular problem that has engaged the interest of New Testament scholars with great intensity. The problem is given with the fact that Jesus died about A. D. 30 but that all of the written materials we possess about Jesus were set down after this date, more exactly, after the Resurrection, when the disciples came to a mature faith in Jesus as the Messiah, or Christ.

Disciplines

Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion

Scripture References in this Resource (separated by semi-colons)

Matthew 1:2-16; Matthew 1:23; Matthew 9:37; Matthew 10:1; Matthew 11:1; Matthew 20:17; Matthew 26:20; Matthew 28:7; Matthew 28:16;

Submission Cost

Free

Submission Audience

Laity; Ministers; Scholars

Recommended Citation

Kingsbury, Jack (1966) "The "Jesus of History" and the "Christ of Faith": In Relation to Matthew's View of Time-Reactions to a New Approach," Concordia Theological Monthly: Vol. 37, Article 43.
Available at: https://scholar.csl.edu/ctm/vol37/iss1/43