Top Highlights

• Studying Jesus as a figure in history is different from studying him as the object of religious devotion or faith.
• Many may think that religion should be concerned with beliefs about Jesus, and history with facts concerning him.
• Paul Hollenbach admits that he pursues the Jesus of history “in order to overthrow, not simply correct, the mistake called Christianity.”
• Frederick Gaiser maintains that “historical investigation is part and parcel of biblical faith,” that one should study the historical Jesus precisely as a way of understanding better “the incarnational God who took the risk of making himself the object of historical study.”
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