InvestigationGod incarnate, rabbi, mystic: who really was Jesus? Since the beginning of critical studies on the Gospels, hundreds of researchers have tried to read between the legends to determine the ...

Editor’s Note: William Lane Craig is an influential Christian thinker. His claims for the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus have garnered both praise and criticism. Professor Craig acknowledges ...

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 ...

There have been so many quests for the historical Jesus that most of us have lost count. Albert Schweitzer famously ended the 19th-century quest by showing that the quest authors had succeeded only in ...

Two years ago, after Dale Allison published a short book on historical Jesus studies that seemed to question the legitimacy of the enterprise, Scot McKnight, a prominent Jesus scholar, declared that ...

He didn’t walk on the water. He didn’t multiply the loaves and fishes. And he didn’t change water into wine. These are the conclusions of the Jesus Seminar, a group of biblical scholars who garnered ...

The actual historical existence of Jesus of Nazareth is now accepted by the vast majority of scholars as an uncontroversial fact. But with the rise of the so-called ‘renewed quest’ and its competitor, ...

Why scholarly attempts to discover the ‘real’ Jesus have failed. And why that’s a good thing. On the opening day of my class on Jesus of Nazareth, I give a standardized psychological test divided into ...

Any book that is dedicated to Galileo is likely to be trying to change the way we see things. The Five Gospels: What Did Jesus Really Say? (1993) aimed to alter our perspective on the historical ...

Currently making the news is a report on a reconstruction of what is being called Jesus’s face. The reconstruction, by British anatomical artist Richard Neave, is actually more than a decade old, but ...

Eighty percent of adult Americans say they are Christians, and 70 percent claim that Jesus is divine as well as human—not just the famous Jewish teacher who walked the Palestinian earth in the first ...