Stop Trying to Save Jesus: ‘Fandamentalism’ Reinforces the Problem of Christian Supremacism
If you’ve spent much time around fandoms, online or off, you’ve surely heard something like,…
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Reza Aslan’s Viral Fox News Interview Reveals More Than Just Christian Privilege
When FoxNews.com’s Lauren Green repeatedly pressed Reza Aslan, a Muslim, on why he wrote a book on Jesus, she was, without knowing it, putting the role of religious studies scholarship on a grand stage.
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Reza Aslan’s Missed Opportunity
With apologies to Reza Aslan, he is not an unbiased scholar of the historical Jesus, or of the history of Islam, or of any other phenomenon in the study of religion. Nor is any Christian or Jewish scholar, or any liberal or conservative scholar. I just wish he had said so.
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In which the author of a new Jesus bio repeatedly addresses his Muslim background.
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Inventing Jesus: An Interview with Bart Ehrman
It’s usually clear to Bart Ehrman who loves him and who hates him. Evangelical Christians have been raking Ehrman over the coals for years for his rejection of biblical inerrancy—and atheists and humanists have embraced his writing as ammunition in the fight against the evils of organized religion. In his new book, Did Jesus Exist?, Ehrman debunks the work of so-called “mythicists”—writers who have argued that a man named Jesus who taught about the coming Kingdom of God never really existed, and that the religions created around him are nothing but fantasy.
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Does the Historical Jesus Matter?
The 25th anniversary of the Jesus Seminar is a good time to ask if it makes a difference when the Jesus of history turns out to be considerably more interesting than the myth-encrusted Christ created by the church over the centuries.
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Pop-Eye: Global Jesus on Film
In this invitation to inter-cinematic dialogue, S. Brent Plate offers a Lenten season roundup of Jesus films from all across the world, and not a blue-eyed protagonist among them.
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