The ancient Jesus and the Christ of Faith examines the conflicting perspectives of Marcus Borg and N. T. Wright at the long-standing query of the connection among the lifestyles and instances of Jesus of Nazareth and the Christ of religion as depicted within the New testomony. Demetrion has created a examine designed to complement and extend at the dialogue specified by Borg's and Wright's greatly learn, The which means of Jesus: Views. whereas the writer is extra empathetic to Wright's emphasis at the continuities among the Jesus of heritage and the Christ of religion, as illuminated during the New testomony, he's serious of Wright's overemphasis on background. In putting his interpretive emphasis at the revelatory dynamic of the canonical Scripture and the nice culture of Christian orthodoxy, Demetrion demands a fourth quest for the old Jesus that starts off from a place firmly rooted in biblical religion and works backwards looking for ancient roots. during this, he attracts at the Pauline imaginative and prescient of "God . . . reconciling the realm to himself in Christ" (2 Cor 5:19) as his underlying hermeneutics. In exploring the wide variety of matters that underpins the continuity/discontinuity query, Demetrion has supplied a source designed to span a large viewers, from Christian grownup learn teams drawn to tackling books like The which means of Jesus to graduate point seminary scholars and professors.

"By technique of his insightful comparability of the perspectives of Borg and Wright at the ancient Jesus, George Demetrion addresses the imperative questions surrounding the interaction of heritage and religion in our wisdom of Jesus. Demetrion's analyzing of either authors is empathic and beneficiant, as he makes an attempt to construct bridges among postliberalism and evangelicalism. this can be a stimulating publication. . . . hugely recommended!" 
--Donald A. Hagner, George Eldon Ladd Professor Emeritus of latest testomony, Fuller Theological Seminary

"Demetrion presents an insightful research and critique of 2 very diverse visions of the historic Jesus. This booklet is a beneficial software for navigating the philosophical foundations of ancient Jesus studies. Demetrion proposes a center manner, the place ancient study isn't really missed yet builds at the strong origin of God's self-revelation via Scripture."
--Mark L. Strauss, PhD, college Professor of latest testomony, Bethel Seminary San Diego

"Demetrion has performed us a superb provider. He invitations us into his personal knowledgeable exploration of this perennial query of the reality approximately Jesus. His procedure is either humble and proficient. . . . [T]he questions engaged during this little booklet are faraway from trivial, and warrant our shut reading."
--Glen G. Scorgie, from the foreword

George Demetrion is a self-educated Christian student who has audited classes at Bethel and Hartford Seminaries. He has taught cx ourses within the Virginia Commonwealth college on-line grownup Literacy Certification application. he's the writer of In Quest of a necessary Protestant middle: An Ecumenical Evangelical Perspective (2014) and Conflicting Paradigms in grownup Literacy schooling: seeking a U.S. Democratic Politics of Literacy (2005).