A Podcast All About Christianity
With the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Reformation, I felt compelled to do some reading on Martin Luther. I had a book on my shelf that had been there for a while and so I grabbed Roland Bainton’s Here I Stand. This is not a new book. Bainton died in 1984 and Here … Read More “Here I Stand – Review” »
One of the most influential New Testament scholars today is N.T. Wright. While some find him controversial, it is difficult to argue against his intelligence and output of biblical and theological content. One of his major projects is on Christian Origins and the Question of God. While I had read the second and third volumes … Read More “The New Testament and the People of God – Review” »
Historians who look at Jesus through the Gospel sources quickly notice that there is a relationship between them. Matthew, Mark and Luke (as opposed to John) have similar stories and at times match each other word-for-word. The nature of the relationship is called the synoptic problem (Matthew, Mark and Luke are the synoptic Gospels). Stanley … Read More “The Synoptic Problem: Four Views – Review” »
Anything about the Jesus Myth Theory quickly comes up on my radar as it is one of my main areas of research. For that reason, Bart Ehrman’s Did Jesus Exist? has been on my must-read pile for some time. In some ways, this is a surprising book for Ehrman to write. Ehrman is a former … Read More “Did Jesus Exist? by Bart Ehrman – Review” »
