Overview
First published in 1941, The Historic Mission of Jesus is one of the landmark texts on the life of Jesus, his relation to the Father and his earthly task. Counter to the prevailing scepticism of the reliability of the Synoptic sources chronicling Jesus' life, Cadoux presents a sweeping yet detailed illustration of the evidence, while advancing theories for its interpretation that would go on to be significant facets of New-Testament study. While not going to the same lengths as Albert Schweitzer, Cadoux nevertheless advances a thoroughly eschatological interpretation of Jesus' self-perception. He thus emphasises the nation-wide character of his appeal, his concern for the redemption of the Gentiles through Israel's fulfilment of the universalistic aspirations of the Old Testament, his eager endeavour to avert a military clash between the Jews and the Roman Empire, and his early expectation of being accepted and loyally followed by his fellow-countrymen as a whole. The result is a prime early example of the revival of interest in the historical Jesus on theological grounds.
Full Product Details
Author: C.J. Cadoux
Publisher: James Clarke & Co Ltd
Imprint: James Clarke & Co Ltd
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.494kg
ISBN: 9780227170618
ISBN 10: 022717061
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 01 November 2002
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Out of wartorn England - significantly, perhaps, from the pen of an uncompromising pacifist - there comes now a highly adequate treatment of that most baffling religious problem, the eschatological thinking of Jesus. . . . This volume. . . may well be considered as indispensable to the serious student of the New Testament simply because it so comprehensively reviews the Synoptic evidence and the best recent scholarship in the area. Albert Leland Jamison, in The Journal of Religion, 1942
Out of wartorn England - significantly, perhaps, from the pen of an uncompromising pacifist - there comes now a highly adequate treatment of that most baffling religious problem, the eschatological thinking of Jesus. . . . This volume. . . may well be considered as indispensable to the serious student of the New Testament simply because it so comprehensively reviews the Synoptic evidence and the best recent scholarship in the area. Albert Leland Jamison, in The Journal of Religion, 1942
Author Information
Cecil John Cadoux (1883-1947) was a Congregationalist theologian known for his writings on pacifism. He was appointed Professor of New Testament Criticism, Exegesis and Theology at Yorkshire United Independent College, Shipley, and subsequently Vice-Principal of Mansfield College Oxford, and Mackennal Professor of Church History.
