Quotes Tagged With :historicity

According to the gospels, Christ healed diseases, cast out devils, rebuked the sea, cured the blind,....

It was only much later that he was made flesh and blood [in the Gospels] on paper. Thus Christ was created....

Thousands of years before Christianity, secret cults arose which worshipped the sacred mushroom—the....

History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoints....

Moreover, it is not just that the early documents are silent about so much of Jesus that came to be recorded....

Gnosticism is undeniably pre-Christian, with both Jewish and gentile roots. The wisdom of Solomon already....

The most 'authoritative' accounts of a historical Jesus come from the four canonical Gospels of the Bible.....

Every work turns against its author: the poem will crush the poet, the system the philosopher, the event....

Equally, it does not mean that Christian beliefs cause more distortion than other ideological beliefs.....

However it—or the kind of extreme individualistic epistemology it embraces—can lead historians to....