Was Jesus Born of a Virgin?

History and Theology, Again

If there’s been a theme to my writing on Jesus the last few months it can be broken down this way: when we assess Jesus of Nazareth as a figure of history, we do so using the same rules and methods we apply to reconstruct the lives of other people from the past as best we can, rigorously outlining and critically perusing our sources for what is fact, wh…