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Contents Foreword and Acknowledgments x 1 Perceptions and Receptions of Jesus Christ 1 Methodological reflections 4 Overview of presentation 5 2 World History, World Religions, and Worldviews 9 Outlining world history 9 Surveying world history 11 From oral traditions to scripts and alphabets 11 From incidental truth-findings to complete belief systems 13 From Roman Empire to corpus Christianum and corpus Islamicum 19 From Western to worldwide orientation 21 Transformation through globalization 23 History in the perspective of world religions and worldviews 26 Linear versus cyclical views 26 Immanent versus transcendent views 31 Final observations 32 3 Messianic Expectations and Beliefs before the Common Era 34 Messianic expectations and beliefs outside Israel 35 Ancient civilizations 35 Jaspers’s axial period 36 Roman empire 37 Messianic expectations and beliefs in Israel 38 The terms “Messiah” and “Christ” 39 Anointed people in Israel 39 Political messianism 40 Spiritual messianism 42 Apocalyptic messianism 46 Final observations 48 4 Jesus, the Messiah/Christ 51 Sources of our knowledge 51 Jewish sources 52 Greco-Roman sources 53 Christian sources 54 Jesus’ life and work 59 Baptis

Who reads Jesus Christ in World History?

Author

Jan A. B. Jongeneel

Publisher

Peter Lang

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction