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Eighth is yet another new phenomenon: the appeal of public-square crossover novels.

Today the debate over that memory has morphed into two fundamentally different stories about Jesus: Christianity and Jesusanity.

This difference over memory parallels the way Jesus is remembered and discussed today.

In 1985 E. P. Sanders wrote Jesus and Judaism. In this work, Sanders, who has taught at Duke, Oxford, and Vanderbilt, argues that Jesus was a restoration prophet for Israel.

then Tertullian is saying that several of the original New Testament books still existed in his day, well over a century after the time of their writing.

Approximately five thousand seven hundred Greek New Testament manuscripts are known to exist.

it's not what /Ehrman puts into the book that is so troubling but what he leaves out. And what he leaves out is any discussion of the tremendous resources at our disposal for reconstructing the text of the New Testament.

The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God and World Affairs (2006).

Lessing's ditch, which argues for a canyon between the Jesus of history and the Christ of faith

A divorce between these texts and Jesus means we see only a shadow of the real Jesus or even a distortion of him.

In many ways, this book is about these four crucial divorces that the discussion between Christianity and Jesusanity engenders.

Finally, the Gospel of Thomas lacks what we might call an "incarnational perspective.

What should not be missed is that both Mack and Sanders share a nonmessianic Jesus, one who is teacher, not messiah. This makes them both holders of Jesusanity

In all my 26 years in Parliament, we had referred to Mr. Ong Teng Cheong as the first Elected President.