ONLINE ARTICLES AND BOOKS:

Religion Online
A collection of online materials, from which most of the following have been selected.

  The following are selections from "Religion Online." It is by no means an exhaustive list of works
included there that touch on NT Theology, but these will give you some idea of the material available at the above link, and seem particularly applicable to our work in this course:

The Historical Jesus and Christian Preaching, by Marcus Borg
    Borg suggests how the "historical Jesus" can, and should, become a more prominent part
of the church's proclamation.
 

Jesus and the Word, by Rudolf Bultmann
    Despite the famous opening line of his "Theology of the New Testament," Bultmann was not
dismissive of the historical aspects of understanding Jesus. Here is his study of Jesus' life and words, of course through Bultmann's demythologizing lens.
 

Biblical Theology in Crisis, by Brevard Childs
    A critique of the "Biblical Theology Movement" which developed following World War II,
this book was published in 1970 and develops Childs' suggestions for a new way of doing
Biblical theology.
 

Jesus, by Martin Dibelius
In this book, pubished in English in 1949, Dibelius insists that although the Bible is shaped by settings in which it was written, it nonetheless testifies to an historical event. Here, 
Dibelius attempts to reconstruct the life and teachings of Jesus.

The Apostolic Preaching and Its Development, by C. H. Dodd
    This book began as a series of 3 lectures that Dodd delivered at King's College in 1935,
and explores the preaching of the earliest church as found in the synoptic gospels, Paul,
and John.
 

Salvation by Trust? Reading the Bible Faithfully, by Richard B. Hays
    Based on a 1996 address to the Society of Biblical Literature, Hays discusses the
current "hermeneutic of suspicion," and insists that we must also be suspicious of our
own perspectives.
 

Honest to Jesus: Giving the Historical Jesus a Say in Our Future, by Gregory C. Jenks
    An address given in 2000, Gregory Jenks was at that time the Associate Director of
the Westar Institute, the parent organization of the Jesus Seminar.
 

The Central Message of the New Testament, by Joachim Jeremias
    One of the primary scholars involved in the so-called "New Quest" (or "Second Quest") for
the historical Jesus, this book was published in 1965.

Taking the Bible Seriously, by Leander E. Keck
    In this book, Keck discusses how modern scholarship provides a way of reading
scripture that opens the door to faith without closing the door to critical thought.

The Real Jesus of the Sayings Q Gospel, by James M. Robinson
    An address given at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1997 by the co-chair of the
International Q Project.
 

The Bible in Human Transformation, by Walter Wink
    In this 1973 book, Wink discusses and critiques the divide between biblical scholarship
and the community of faith, and suggests new ways of approaching scripture that may
draw those two poles back together.
 

God's Way of Acting, by N. T. Wright
    Adapted from the book The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions (with Marcus Borg),
Wright explores the meaning of the birth narratives in Matthew and Mark, and argues
for keeping historical judgment on these events open.
 

Resurrection Faith: N.T. Wright Talks About History and Belief
        Wright argues that the gospel writers were describing events which they believed had
actually happened in the world of time and space; if they did not "really" happen, then Wright
says he has better things to do with his life. First published in The Christian Century, Dec 18-31, 2002.

The Use of the Bible in Theology, by John Howard Yoder
    A chapter in the 1984 book The Use of the Bible in Theology: Evangelical Options, 
    Yoder discusses how the Bible can and should function as the authority within the 
    community of the church.
 

OTHER ONLINE RESOURCES:

Resources on the Historical Jesus
A set of links from "New Testament Gateway"

The Jesus Seminar Forum
Here is the homepage for the Westar Institute and the Jesus Seminar.

"In Focus -- Who Is Jesus?"
From the Lutheran, material by Mark Powell (Trinity Seminary) looks at the Jesus Seminar  and the search for the "historical Jesus."

"The Coming Radical Reformation - 21 Theses"
By Robert W. Funk, co-founder of the Jesus Seminar, this essay proposes a view of
Jesus that Funk finds more consistent with modern ways of viewing reality.

Chart of differing canons for Hebrew scriptures
From Dr. Felix Just