“Nearly all critical scholars agree at least on those points about the historical Jesus,” Bart D. Ehrman wrote, even as the ...
Our answer to the question asked by Our Lord — “Who do men say that I am?” — changes everything for us. Rogier van der Weyden, “The Crucifixion, with the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist Mourning, ...
Jesus of Nazareth is perhaps the most significant individual in human history, and yet some skeptics and critics have questioned his existence. How much can we actually know about him beyond the ...
Image on the cover of Gerhard Lohfink’s Jesus of Nazareth: What He Wanted, Who He Was (Liturgical Press) I can vividly remember sitting at my desk at America Media and opening an email from Liturgical ...
A stained-glass window in St. Edward's Church in Seattle shows Jesus, Mary and Joseph on their flight into Egypt. Credit: CNS/Crosiers Over the past 40 years, I’ve tried to read as much as I can on ...
Now what do you think we can know about Jesus' social class based on recent evidence and discussions? Recent discussions of Jesus' social class try to locate him within the social structures of ...
Dramatising the life of Jesus was a first for television drama, but BBC producers had to tread carefully around some sensitive and difficult concerns. The BBC’s relationship with religion has often ...
Scientists say that the name of Christianity’s central figure wasn’t originally Jesus Christ — he went by another title in his mother tongue that’s nothing like today’s iteration, the Daily Mail ...