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...body. Not all ancient Christians agreed. Augustine, in the course of arguing for Christ's incarnation - this intimate relationship between divinity and humanity - explicitly parallels it to God's relationship with the Jews. He writes that Catholics and Jews stand as one community over against pagans and heretics, that Jesus and his apostles, including Paul, lived as Torah-observant Jews for the whole of their lives. And he urges that God himself would punish any king who tried to interfere with the Jews' practice of Judaism. These ideas preserved space for Jewishness in Christian culture, space that in the much...
Holy Relics? Tim McGirk's article [Nov. 24], makes a sweeping statement that "indisputable historical evidence that Jesus Christ, or any of the biblical prophets, truly existed is something that eludes religious scholars." In an article on Jesus Christ, the Encyclopaedia Britannica mentions that in 1st century Roman and Jewish sources there are a number of references to Jesus. Pieter Pretorius, KIMBERLEY, SOUTH AFRICA...
...casket had the words "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus" inscribed on it, then of course it was a fake. The English language didn't even exist yet, so what's all the hullabaloo about? But seriously, I wish you had said more about the inscription - for example, which language it was in or what the actual words were, transcribed into our alphabet. Eila Kolu, KITEE, FINLAND...
...Deepak Chopra is the author of Jesus: A Story of Enlightenment and writes regularly at www.intent.com...
Osservatore Romano •John Lennon is at last forgiven by for 42-year-old observation about the popularity of his band relative to that of Jesus...