The black-and-white thinking in our politics brings to mind a skill that the state of Texas requires me to teach my college ...

Our understanding of the historical figure of Jesus relies primarily on the writings of the New Testament. As a general rule, it is assumed that the canonical Gospels, being the earliest in terms ...

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 ...

Two scholars who died this week—Albert Nolan, O.P., and Msgr. John P. Meier—made enormous contributions to our understanding of the historical Jesus and his message.

Like others in Judea and Egypt, where Jesus briefly lived, the historical Jesus likely had dark hair, tan skin, and brown eyes. (This image matches up with Neave’s forensic reconstruction.) ...

The new quest of the historical Jesus has raised almost as many Christian hackles as the old one did. Non-Bultmannite Biblical critics, such as William Albright of Johns Hopkins, contend that the ...

Quests for the historical Jesus come and go, but no sooner are postmortems pronounced for one than another quest in a new form seems to rise.

The fact that we don't have historical sources to get back to the so-called real Jesus has never stopped the movement from existing. It's very powerful, and that to me is totally fascinating.

Msgr. John P. Meier, who devoted his scholarly career to validating Jesus as a historical figure who could be reconciled with the Christ of religious faith, died on Oct. 18 in South Bend, Ind.

Whereas the more unnatural reading, the one that insists that the Gospels were largely constructed later on, tends to lead to the constant problem of so much historical-Jesus scholarship, where ...