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When Jesus posed this question to his disciples in Matthew's Gospel, Peter emphatically and faithfully replied, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." And what might the answer be today? Three newly published scholarly books put forward a startlingly revisionist reply. While Jesus may have been...
While Jesus may have had some ability to use trancelike therapies to "exorcise" demons, Crossan says, he used the incidents themselves chiefly to characterize "Roman imperialism as demonic possession." Both Crossan and Mack say Jesus' ideas are similar to those of the Cynics of the age. These were men who...
Not surprisingly, the new books are controversial. Jacob Neusner, professor of religious studies at the University of South Florida, calls the Jesus Seminar "either the greatest scholarly hoax since the Piltdown Man or the utter bankruptcy of New Testament studies -- I hope the former." Other scholars question the use of...
ON CHRIST'S RESURRECTION. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of West Germany asked me once if I believed in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. I said, Yes, I do. He said, So do I, and if Jesus Christ was not raised from the dead, there's no hope for the human race...
The most sweeping educational reform effort of the 1990s, a referendum which attempted to empower schoolchildren's parents at the expense of education bureaucrats, has just been defeated in our nation's most populous state. California voters rejected Proposition 174 and its plan to distribute $2,600 in education funds...