Instead, it presents a young Jesus who is volatile, impulsive, and possessed of a power so raw that it terrified everyone around him. What if our modern perception of Jesus is sanitized? By examining ...
The gospels are not biographies in the modern sense of the word. Rather, they are stories told in such a way as to evoke a certain image of Jesus for a particular audience. They're trying to convey a ...
The orthodox view of Christianity is that Jesus preached the same doctrine to all men—there was no inner circle of “initiates” with special knowledge, as in Gnosticism and the mystery religions. The ...
(The Conversation) — As Easter approaches, Christians around the world begin to focus on two of the central tenets of their faith: the death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. Other charismatic ...
OUR estimate of religion is bound up to some degree with the success of religion. One does not need to be a doctrinaire pragmatist to believe that. One need be only a garden-variety minister, doing ...
Q: Why are there four Gospels in the New Testament instead of one? Answer: We know from research that after the death and resurrection of Jesus many stories about him were in circulation, and more ...
OKLAHOMA CITY — Spoken Gospel, a nonprofit that helps people understand and be changed by the Bible, is thrilled to announce the finale of its seven-year journey: the release of its Revelation video, ...
The gospels are not biographies in the modern sense of the word. Rather, they are stories told in such a way as to evoke a certain image of Jesus for a particular audience. They're trying to convey a ...