Jesus, Interpreted
Author | : Matthew J. Ramage |
Publisher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2017 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780813229089 |
ISBN-13 | : 0813229081 |
Rating | : 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: In this sequel volume to his Dark Passages of the Bible (CUA Press, 2013), author Matthew Ramage turns his attention from the Old to the New Testament, now tackling truth claims bearing directly on the heart of the Christian faith cast into doubt by contemporary New Testament scholarship: Did God become man in Jesus, or did the first Christians make Jesus into God? Was Jesus' resurrection a historical event, or rather a myth fabricated by the early Church? Will Jesus indeed return to earth on the last day, or was this merely the naïve expectation of ancient believers that reasonable people today ought to abandon?