Historical Jesus Research Paper

To what extent is the Historical Jesus recoverable from the gospel

The Gospels are considered to be eyewitness accounts of the life of Jesus Christ. The Gospels speak of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and contain the messages and teachings of God giving down onto Jesus. The first four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are the Gospels that contain the stories of Jesus. The first three Gospels are referred to as the synoptic Gospels because they are almost identical as regard the tone, theme and the type of language used within the texts. However, they each tell a different story. Hence, the reason why the are called the synoptic gospels. (yet they are quite dissimilar too). Whereas, John’s text contains a different structure …show more content…
One, that jesus did exist and secondly that he did on the cross (Bultmann believed this). The quest to finding the hidden truth is so important because Historical Jesus is the core of Christianity. Followers of Christianity do not want to hear that there is any doubt in relation to their Christianity as their hopes and dreams of God and Jesus would be nothing and waste of their devotion. Jesus was seen by many as a preacher of good actions, he embraced all sufferers and was seen as perfection personified. Hence why the quest to find the historical Jesus was so famous by liberal theologians especailly. According to a Tuebingen-trained doctor of theology, on the first quest to finding the recoverable Jesus he stated sceptics produced that of fantastically beautiful and compassionate picture of Jesus and at this time European were still very much adamant to believe in this Jesus. This was seen as a “natural tendency, under the influence of the French Enlightenment, to apply the rules of historical investigation to that most important subject of Western culture: the events of the sacred story of Jesus Christ”. (Paul F.M. Zahl) The second quest involved Bultmanns theory on trying to renew faith for Christian. “The Third Quest for the Historical Jesus is actually an attempt to substitute his discontinuity with the Judaism in which he was born by his continuity with it.” “A tendency to minimize the rough edges of Jesus' words and ministry in relation to Judaism, and magnify the lines of continuity, is almost universal now in New Testament studies” (Paul F.M Zahl). This quote is very significant because of its accuracy at summing up the current idea of Historical Jesus now. To this day, Evangelism is being preached about in the Vatican, which is a major advantage for the chritian community and it shows there is still hope for

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