Moreover, some of the witnesses of the Resurrection would give their lives for their belief. This also makes fraud unlikely. The uncertainties are substantial, but, given the accounts in these sources, certainty is unobtainable. We may say of the disciples’ experiences of the Resurrection ...
The individual characteristics necessarily manifest themselves and become concrete in the act of appropriating and modifying the spaces that are available to each person.3 Everyone possesses mental maps4 that are closely linked to the place where he or she lives, and everyone has in mind a ...
It was, however, the distinction betweenoriginal sin(i.e., the sin that all people are born with) andactual sin(i.e., the sins that people commit during their lives), firmly established in Western theology by the same Augustine, that eventually compelled a further clarification of what the...
Jesus doesn’t force people to love him or hunger and thirst after his Word. “And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.”(Revelations 22:17). You wou...
Jesus represents the model of the Sufi mystic who comes from Him, lives in Him, and returns to Him (Flaquer 2015). However, Jesus is the only one to receive this appellation in the Qurʾān, which gives him a particular distinction. Jesus is also a paradigmatic manifestation of a ...
Jesus of Nazareth: With Robert Powell, Anne Bancroft, Ernest Borgnine, Claudia Cardinale. Beginning before the Nativity and extending through the Crucifixion and Resurrection, this mini-series brings to life all of the sweeping drama in the life of Jesus
Seeking to overcome the pessimism cast by Schweitzer and repeated by Bultmann regarding what can be known historically about Jesus, the second quest also produced "Lives" of Jesus, often tinged with notions of the existential relevance of the Jesus who emerges from these studies. The original ...
They knew that ideal leaders had the ability to effect virtue in the lives of their people. Not every virtuous teacher or king had the power to bring about lasting change, however. Numa, whom Plutarch thinks best exemplifies the ancient philosopher king model, was unable to effect change ...
These women have just experienced the greatest disappointment of their lives. As far as they could see (before Jesus opened their eyes), their faith was left in tatters. Jesus, the Savior they’d come to believe in, was gone. No redeeming Israel, no salvation of the people…just a victor...
Feucht chose then to be baptized in the waters of the river by his father, surrounded by what he describes as “an entire unreached tribe of people that had just given their lives to Jesus.” The indigenous people were dressed in white robes, Feucht recalls. “Whe...