In a church in Southern England one can visit the tomb of a certain Sarah Fletcher who—according to her epitaph—died “a martyr of excessive sensibility.” This high-sounding phrase conceals the ...

‘Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one ...

Few ancient lives have left as many fingerprints on the modern world and yet remained so hard to fix on a single, stable ...

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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 ...

I enjoyed Scot McKnight’s piece on the Historical Jesus, because much of it is important to say. Historical Jesus work is often deconstructive (the key word here is often). History at its best is ...

Scot McKnight is right to insist that the Gospels rather than scholars’ speculations are where we encounter Jesus. I myself recently argued in The Historical Jesus of the Gospels that the Gospel ...

Like every Christmas for the past 2 years, celebrities and activists have increasingly claimed that Jesus Christ was “Palestinian.” The assertion is rarely presented as a historical inquiry. It ...

SYDNEY >> Did a man called Jesus of Nazareth walk the earth? Discussions over whether the figure known as the “Historical Jesus” actually existed primarily reflect disagreements among atheists.

The portrayal of Jesus as a white, European man has come under renewed scrutiny during this period of introspection over the legacy of racism in society. As protesters called for the removal of ...