Jesus

Joan Taylor's top-notch scholarship reads like a detective thriller.

From Hindu Bible commentary to Christian minjung theology, the Asian Jesus has taken many forms.

John Stackhouse's real-world ethics primer covers just about every subject, but it leaves out an important one.

As Roland Boer and Christina Petterson see it, the Gospels contradict the witness of Jesus about slavery and property.

We should forebear one another—not to ensure church unity, but because God forebears us.

There is abundant documentation of the intertestamental period. We just haven't read it.

Joshua Jipp recommends the best recently published books in his field.

Hans Boersma sees scripture as more open to imaginative reading than our modern methods permit. The key is faith in Christ.

If we are to understand the delivering power of Jesus’ coming and presence on the earth, we must un-domesticate the Jesus story.

I was able to sit and have a brief conversation with him about racism, a whitened Jesus, and the reign of God. I thought you might appreciate the conversation as well. Let me know what you think.

What's more important: calculating the logic of the Trinity, or doing theology across cultures?

According to some Mormon traditions, God and Jesus have made babies—God with the Heavenly Mother, and Jesus with one of his wives.

Much of what Christianity has long been saying about the cross of Christ is problematic. So what is to be done about it?

Nevertheless, I think that John’s prologue has much more to say. In speaking about this Word become flesh, it also speaks powerfully to us about what it means to be human. Over the years, I kept returning to a few verses that changed the way that I saw the entire prologue and which consequently changed my entire theology.

May we not domesticate the Jesus story for our own religious comfort, but in telling the story, and doing so truthfully, may we worship our crucified Christ and encounter his delivering presence, and therefore be transformed after the image of God.

This is a book for those that are seeking to embody the radical witness of Jesus for their own time, recalibrating their own lives in light of the Sermon on the Mount and Jesus’ example of solidarity with the oppressed. If you, or anyone you know, is looking to be inspired by both the past and present witness of Jesus in the world, and if you would appreciate it communicated through creative and beautiful artwork testifying to God’s Church making visible the Kingdom of God, then Radical Jesus is for you!

It’s almost Easter, which can mean only one thing: it’s time for the blockbuster Bible bestsellers. Last week, Bart Ehrman promoted his new book, How Jesus Became God, on NPR’s Fresh Air. Ehrman advances a common argument: Christian conceptions of Jesus’ identity grew more elaborate with time. His followers first perceived Jesus as a remarkable preacher or prophet, but eventually believers came to regard him as God incarnate.

Although I was aware of Ehrman’s book, I missed the publicity blitz.

I thumbed through a stack of Xeroxed images, looking at the multiple faces of Jesus that a friend compiled for her theology paper. She had gone to the library and photocopied profiles from around the globe.

Rem­brandt's meditations on Jesus' face reflect momentous
changes in his faith—and in how people of his time
envisioned Jesus.