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 ...

It is not always found to be whether Jesus mattered or not; it is whether he can be dealt with by the ordinary instruments of history, two thousand years on. To historians, the issue is not whether ...

For almost two hundred years historical criticism of the New Testament has been retreating before the advance of the historical Jesus. Great ramparts have been erected against him, yet each has been ...

The quest for the historical Jesus has gone on for about three centuries. Now, the classical study of this was done by Albert Schweitzer, at the turn to the 20th century, in his book, "The Quest of ...

Picks from Darrell Bock, editor of ‘Key Events in the Life of the Historical Jesus.’ I am serious about this—nothing has helped shape my view of Jesus more than the Gospels, read repeatedly as ...

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 ...

The biblical scholar Luke Timothy Johnson has sung the same tune for a long time, one that reassures those who are satisfied with the status quo. The quest for the historical Jesus, however, was ...

A question I didn’t realize was being asked is the subject of a new book by scholar Bart Ehrman. In Did Jesus Exist?, Ehrman lays out the case that an historical Jesus of Nazareth did exist, even with ...

Christians all over the world will celebrate the resurrection of Jesus on Easter Sunday. That means you will see stories about “the historical Jesus” this month in the media. As opposed to the ...

This past September, Harvard University professor Karen King unveiled a newly discovered Gospel fragment that she entitled "The Gospel of Jesus' Wife." This wisp of a papyrus has stirred up a hornet's ...