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 quest for the historical Jesus has gone on for about three centuries. Now, the classical study of this was done by Albert Schweitzer, at the turn to the 20th century, in his book, "The Quest of ...

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 ...

The biblical scholar Luke Timothy Johnson has sung the same tune for a long time, one that reassures those who are satisfied with the status quo. The quest for the historical Jesus, however, was ...

Picks from Darrell Bock, editor of ‘Key Events in the Life of the Historical Jesus.’ I am serious about this—nothing has helped shape my view of Jesus more than the Gospels, read repeatedly as ...

Today, as Christians around the world commemorate Good Friday, Christian scholar and former priest John Dominic Crossan joins Fresh Air to discuss the historical Jesus, the role of crucifixion in ...

Two years ago, after Dale Allison published a short book on historical Jesus studies that seemed to question the legitimacy of the enterprise, Scot McKnight, a prominent Jesus scholar, declared that ...

The video examines recorded sayings about Jesus alongside known first-century events to assess historical alignment. Topics ...

The fact that there are multiple sources behind the New Testament is one of the ways contemporary historians begin to assess the historicity of things. (giovanni ciardi / iStock / Getty Images) I was ...

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