The celebration of the Nativity was not something that Christians did for the first few centuries of Christianity. Easter, ...

One of the problems about the development of traditions around Christmas is that people writing hymns or plays set Jesus' ...

Discover the tumultuous historical context of Jesus’ birth. Historian debunks peaceful nativity myths, revealing a world of danger, revolt, and Roman rule.

Jesus of Nazareth is perhaps the most significant individual in human history, and yet some skeptics and critics have questioned his existence. How much can we actually know about him beyond the ...

Here’s the origin of Christmas as we know it, when it’s estimated Jesus might have been born, and when Christians started ...

When the 3 rd -century Christian theologian Origen of Alexandria attempted to account for the unusual movements of the Star ...

SYDNEY >> Did a man called Jesus of Nazareth walk the earth? Discussions over whether the figure known as the “Historical Jesus” actually existed primarily reflect disagreements among atheists.

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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 ...

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 ...