Charles A. Wilson is Professor of Religion at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. He is the author of Feuerbach and the Search for Otherness (1989).
"A challenging yet reassuring invitation for theologians and
thinking Christians generally to prosper in open but critical
engagement with the recent quests for the historical Jesus. This is
a splendid work, at once wide-ranging, meticulous, practical in its
guidance, and keenly sensitive to both the insights and the
blunders attending every twist and turn along this 'new avenue' for
Christology."
--Terence J. Martin, Professor, Indiana University
"Inventing Christic Jesuses is a fascinating and erudite book.
Charles Wilson proposes a 'method' for how theologians ought to use
research on Jesus in advancing current Christology. Additionally,
Wilson isolates the danger of 'retrojecting' onto Jesus, inventing
Christ. This danger is not easily avoided. Wilson's development of
a method for theology is thereby essential for Christological
reflection. I recommend this book to anyone who cares about how to
think of Jesus as the Christ."
--William Schweiker, Professor, The University of Chicago Divinity
School
"Wilson's work is the culmination of a lifetime's reflection on and
teaching about the Jesus question. For decades, his colleagues and
students have benefited immensely from his enormous erudition on
the topic. In Wilson's view, the latest 'quest for the historical
Jesus' is as much about the culture of the questers as about the
Jesus of history. Here, in true Hegelian fashion, theology,
history, and sociology meet as they haven't quite before in
treatments of the subject. It is a joy to know that Wilson's
monumental scholarship, with all its richness and with all its
range, will now be made available to the wider scholarly community.
We won't be able to think about Jesus and the Christ in the same
way again."
--Edmund Santurri, Professor, St. Olaf College
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