1/8/2010 12:30:31 PM

Pretty good article on Jesus studies from Atlantic, published 1986. “The most important corrective of historical scholarship has been to begin to alter the view of many Christians that basically Jesus is God walking around in a mask, that he wasn’t really human. This is Docetism, and a lot of Christians are really functional Docetists. Historical criticism corrects that very quickly. Good historical work on Jesus clearly demythologizes lots of common Christian views about who Jesus was.”

Who Do Men Say That I Am? – 86.12
www.theatlantic.com
Atlantic Unbound: The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Online