While believers and historians alike accept and agree that Jesus existed and died on a Roman cross sometime around 33 A.D., scholars regularly disagree over what he may have looked like. Historical ...

How as a scholar and a historian do you reconcile studying the Bible in a rationalist way with your Christian faith? I suppose it's an important part of my theological commitment that I believe that ...

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 ...

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CAN WE REALLY RECONSTRUCT JESUS' WORLD? For every scholar working with ancient history, the first thing to recognize is that our evidence is very, very fragmentary. In a way, we can never reconstruct ...

What effect does contemplating the Holy Face have? A devout Franciscan brother presents it well. “Who could ever go through such a torturous passion with so much evil intent, and end up with such a ...