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| Foreword | |
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| Questions | |
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| Do the Gospel Stories Present an Accurate Factual Account of the Teaching and Deeds of Jesus of Nazareth? | |
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| How Much Can We Claim To Know About the Jesus of History? | |
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| Do the Apocryphal Gospels Tell Us Anything Important About Jesus of Nazareth? | |
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| Is Not Such an Approach to the Jesus of History and to the Canonical Gospels Tantamount to an Implicit Reduction in Christian Faith and Contrary to a Centuries-Long Tradition of Gospel Interpretation? | |
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| How Historical Are the Infancy Narratives of the Matthean and Lucan Gospels? | |
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| Does the Story of the Virgin Birth Record Simple Historical Fact or Are There Other Possible Ways of Understanding It? | |
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| How Are We To Understand the References to the Brothers and Sisters of Jesus in the New Testament? | |
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| How Are the Gospel Accounts of Jesus' Baptism To Be Understood? | |
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| How Are the Gospel Accounts of Jesus' Temptations To Be Understood? | |
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| What Themes in the Gospels Are Accepted as Representing the Teachings of Jesus Himself? | |
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| What Did Jesus Teach About the Kingdom of God? | |
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| How Are Jesus' Sayings and Parables To Be Understood, Also His Sermon on the Mount? | |
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| How Are the Gospel Accounts of Jesus' Miracles To Be Understood? | |
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| How Are Jesus' Words to Simon Peter at Caesarea Philippi To Be Understood? | |
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| How Are Jesus' Words and Actions at the Last Supper To Be Understood? | |
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| Who Was Responsible for the Death of Jesus? | |
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| Are There Different Interpretations of Jesus as the Christ (or Different Christologies) in the New Testament? | |
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| How Are References to the Resurrection of Jesus in the New Testament To Be Interpreted? | |
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| How Are New Testament References to the Ascension of Jesus To Be Understood? | |
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| Did Jesus Clearly Claim To Be God? | |
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| Did Jesus of Nazareth Know All Things, Even About the Future? | |
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| What Is To Be Said of the Titles Messiah or Christ, Son of Man, Son of God, Lord, etc.? | |
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| After the Resurrection Was Jesus Proclaimed Unambiguously from the Start as Son of God, Equal to the Father? | |
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| In What Sense Can It Be Said That Jesus Was the Redeemer of the World? | |
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| Did Jesus Found the Church? | |
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| Appendix | |
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| App. 1. The Biblical Commission and Its Instruction on the Historical Truth of the Gospels | |
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| App. 2. Instruction: Text | |
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| App. 3. Vatican Council II Dogmatic Constitution, Dei Verbum [section]19 (AAS 58 [1966] 826-27) | |
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| Select Bibliography | |
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| Indexes | |