Christ

A Christography in Four Faces, Pars Secunda

Continuatum a parte prima.

In the last piece, I presented a very general portrait of the historical Jesus summarizing a good deal of contemporary scholarship in four assertions: Jesus existed; he was a Jew; he was an apocalyptic and social prophet; and he was crucified by the Romans. To these I appended a fifth: Jesus’ followers believed that he was rais…