What does it mean to do history when it comes to Jesus? What is the historian doing? We might say there is a spectrum with at one end a radical reconstruction of what Jesus was really like and at the ...
a. The untheological Jesus. Our only access to Jesus is through the faith and theology of the early church. The Gospels contains a mixture of fact and faith, history and hermeneutic, authenticity and ...
There have been so many quests for the historical Jesus that most of us have lost count. Albert Schweitzer famously ended the 19th-century quest by showing that the quest authors had succeeded only in ...
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Theological trends in Protestant divinity schools seem to come and go almost before laymen have time to find out what they are all about. Hardly was liberalism enthroned in the seminaries when ...
The question of whether Jesus of Nazareth was a historical figure continues to be debated more than 2,000 years after his lifetime. Researchers are once again pointing to a number of ancient texts as ...
Here’s a book you might be interested in getting. It is a comic book called Radical Jesus: A Graphic History of Faith. This book surprised me with its ability to inspire and encourage through the ...
With their new book Who’s Bigger? Where Historical Figures Really Rank, Steven Skiena and Charles Ward try to quantify history’s most significant human beings. We spoke to Skiena, who, among other ...