Martin Kähler

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Martin Kähler (6 January 1835 – 7 September 1912) was a German theologian. He is best known for his short work Der sogenannte historische Jesus und der geschichtliche, biblische Christus (The so-called historical Jesus and the historic, biblical Christ).

Kähler was born in Neuhausen near Königsberg and died in Freudenstadt. He had a profound impact upon the famous Protestant theologian, Paul Tillich.^[1]

According to Kähler, the quest for the historical Jesus ("The Life-of-Jesus research") is challenged by there existing no historical biographies of the life of Jesus. The gospels serve as our only sources, and they are limited in scope, leaving many unanswered questions. One must resist the urge to speculate too much about the life of Jesus, as some historical analogies and psychoanalyses do. He concludes that we do not need to know all the details about Jesus' life. All we really need to know is that Jesus died for the sins of the world. It is through him that we are redeemed.^[2] Preoccupation with tenuous details about Jesus' life distracts from that which really matters about Jesus - his redeeming death and his subsequent resurrection.

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 4988023 LCCN: n87841224 ISNI: 0000 0001 2118 6535 GND: 118559125 BNF: cb122537819

References

↑ Re Manning, Russell, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Paul Tillich. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University. p. xix.
↑ Dunn, James D.G. and Scot McKnight, ed. (2005). The Historical Jesus in Recent Research. Eisenbrauns. p. 76.

Persondata
Name	Kahler, Martin
Alternative names
Short description	German theologian
Date of birth	6 January 1835
Place of birth	Guryevsk
Date of death	7 September 1912
Place of death	Freudenstadt

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