Son of God

A Christography in Four Faces, Pars Tertia

Continuatum a parte secunda.

In the first installment of this series, I presented the historical Jesus as scholars more or less agree he should be abstracted from our extant data; in the second, I traced the evolution and meanings of belief in Jesus as messiah, a multifaceted first-century Jewish political idiom that, in application to Jesus, has taken m…