Almost every form of Christianity says that Jesus was human. Yet most begin His human life with a personal subject who already existed outside humanity. …
From answered prayer to sacred war: tracing human and divine action without confusing their authors When the rain comes Imagine two neighbors looking at the …
Judaism and Pauline Christianity stand on opposite sides of the same crime while concealing its true meaning. The religious authorities who rejected Jesus refused the Melek chosen …
Christianity presents the death of Jesus as the supreme revelation of divine love. God loves humanity, Jesus gives himself for sinners, and the cross becomes …
At the center of the transmitted Passion narrative stands a sentence that has defined the Christian image of the cross for almost two millennia: “Eli, …
Christian theology eventually placed at its center a figure fundamentally different from the Anointed One presented by the prophetic tradition. In that tradition, the Melek …
What Baptism Means in the Prophetic Biblical Context Baptism first appears in the Gospel tradition through John the Baptist, and in that original prophetic setting …
By 610 A.D., Christianity had already been transformed into an imperial religion. Beginning with Constantine, political power had been used to establish and defend Trinitarian …