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Theories about Jesus

Author
  • N. T. Wright
Categories (2)
  • Current Affairs and Causes
  • Bible and Theology
Illiustration Categories (2)
  • Background
  • Stories
Keywords (7)
  • Jesus
  • Assumptions
  • Books
  • Hearing What We Want to Hear
  • Jesus' Character
Scripture (6)
  • Isaiah 9:6–7
  • Micah 5:2
  • Isaiah 53:3–5
  • John 1:1–3, 14
  • Colossians 2:8–9
Date Added
  • Apr 22, 2025

We hear of wild new theories about Jesus. Every month or two some publisher comes up with a blockbuster saying that he was a New Age guru, an Egyptian freemason or a hippie revolutionary. Every year or two some scholar or group of scholars comes up with a new book full of imposing footnotes to tell us that Jesus was a peasant Cynic, a wandering wordsmith or the preacher of liberal values born out of due time. The day I was…

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