Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter

Explaining Jesus (eBook, ePUB)

An Interdisciplinary Exploration of a Phenomenon

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How exactly does one explain Jesus? That is the central question of this book. But the task of explaining Jesus is complicated. For many nonbelievers, skeptics, or practitioners of non- Jesus-based religions or spiritualities, it can be very strange to refer to a particular man who lived in the first century CE as someone who is still living. Even for some believers, this idea can be a difficult thing to understand-even given the teachings of their faith. Thus, whether believer or nonbeliever or somewhere in-between, for the intellectually curious, there is need for an explanation. Explaining Jesus explores the possibilities of a secular, interdisciplinary, science-based explanation for the phenomenon of Jesus.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 233
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498533249
• Artikelnr.: 56803475

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter serves as special lecturer in writing and rhetoric, liberal studies, and the Honors College at Oakland University and is the author of Death in Documentaries: The Memento Mori Experience.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: A Problem-Driven Life
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Problem of Explaining Jesus
Part I
Chapter 1: Philosophies of Being a Person Like Jesus: Metaphysicalist,
Dualist, Physicalist
Chapter 2: Discourse About Jesus: From the Vernacular to the Scholarly and
Scientific
Chapter 3: Discourse About Jesus in Historical Scholarship
Part II
Chapter 4: A Turn to the Sciences: An Evolutionary, Physicalist Context for
Explaining Jesus
Chapter 5: "Jesus" as a "Person" with Special Features: Cognitive
Psychological Applications Toward Explaining Jesus
Chapter 6: Experiencing "Jesus" as Cultivated Social Practice: Behavioral
Aspects of the Phenomenon
Chapter 7: Toward Explaining a "Personal Relationship with Jesus":
Isolating and Studying a Phrase
Part III
Chapter 8: as a Sign in Complex Systems
Chapter 9: as Glocal Sign of the People
Chapter 10: Critiqued and Appropriated
Chapter 11: The Hope of Resurrection: Beliefs, Fantasies, Misconceptions,
Present-day Science, Speculation, Science Fiction, and Delusion
Chapter 12: Lessons Learned, Including All That Is Not Explained, and Final
Remarks
References
About the Author