Brian Bethune, in a recent article, “Did Jesus Really Exist,” published in Maclean’s Magazine (28 March/4 April 2016), writes, “The reason Biblical historians cannot find even the outline of a historical Jesus, argues an increasingly persuasive chorus of challengers, is that there is nothing to find: Jesus Christ never lived at all” (39). Here we […]
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One of the contributors to this blog, Stanley Porter, has posted a guest blog at EerdWord regarding his recent book John, His Gospel, and Jesus: In Pursuit of the Johannine Voice. Click on the link to read his comments on what sorts of contributions the book makes in Johannine studies.
I recently (June 4–5) attended the 2015 Bingham Colloquium at McMaster Divinity College (MDC), Hamilton, ON, Canada. MDC has (usually) annually sponsored the Bingham colloquium since 1995, held in honour of a prominent Baptist pastor and gathering biblical scholars and theologians from around the world to present their individual perspective on a selected topic. The […]