‘Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one ...

Few ancient lives have left as many fingerprints on the modern world and yet remained so hard to fix on a single, stable ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Jane Root’s Nutopia is doubling down on the life of Jesus – this time for History. The One Strange Rock producer, which previously made Finding Jesus for CNN, has been commissioned by the A+E Networks ...

I enjoyed Scot McKnight’s piece on the Historical Jesus, because much of it is important to say. Historical Jesus work is often deconstructive (the key word here is often). History at its best is ...

Scot McKnight is right to insist that the Gospels rather than scholars’ speculations are where we encounter Jesus. I myself recently argued in The Historical Jesus of the Gospels that the Gospel ...

Like every Christmas for the past 2 years, celebrities and activists have increasingly claimed that Jesus Christ was “Palestinian.” The assertion is rarely presented as a historical inquiry. It ...

What race was Jesus of Nazareth, one of the most consequential figures in the history of the world? Nobody can say for certain, but based on recent comments by the head of the Church of England, it is ...