Richard Bauckham is professor of New Testament studies and Bishop Wardlaw Professor at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. His Jesus and the Eyewitnesses is a scholarly tour de force for his thesis that the four canonical gospels are immediate eyewitness testimony. In two cases, Matthew and John, the authors were eye-witnesses, while Luke and Mark were written by those who directly recorded eyewitness testimony, above all, that of Peter.
Read more* Romans 13 tells us that (v.1) the governing authorities are established by God, that the government is (v.4) "God's servant to do you good," and therefore that we are to (v.5) "submit to the authorities."
* In Titus 3:1, the Apostle Paul tells Titus to, "Remind the people to be subject to rulers and authorities ..."
Read moreWe wish to express our particular gratitude to the His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, for convening the conference in partnership with the Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme and the Royal Aal Al-Bayt Foundation, and for hosting us at Lambeth Palace. We are grateful too for the extraordinarily generous hospitality offered by the Colleges and University of Cambridge.
Read more"One of them names a benefactor called Gaianus who is described as a centurion. Another mentions a woman called Akeptous who '...offered this table in memorial of the God Jesus Christ'."
The inscriptions cast more doubt on claims made by prominent atheists and popular authors that Jesus' divinity was an invention by the fourth century church.
Read moreIn the other trench lie the militant Godless who - bizarrely - wholly agree with the creationists. Darwinism, they proclaim, does indeed undermine religious belief and a good thing too. Darwin is their icon and they frantically genuflect before his image, in a way brilliantly parodied by the satirical magazine The Onion.
Read moreBut is it true, I asked, that religion has done more than anything else to inspire violence?
Read moreThe sturdy wall, which is believed to have run 6 km. around Jerusalem, was previously exposed by an American archeologist at the end of the 19th century, the state run archeological body said.
Read moreKorn shows that Jews have always thought of salvation as corporate, not individual, for Torah's famous call to God's people to be holy in Leviticus 19 is in the plural imperative. Since holiness is to be social, primarily expressed in relations among human beings and especially in a holy society, a land is needed to ensure the freedom to create that society. This is why "the Land is essential to the divine biblical mission" (8).
Read moreI know no other religion [than what is founded on dogma]; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery. As well can there be filial love without the fact of a father, as devotion without the fact of a Supreme Being.
Read moreThe passages, previously hidden by a heavily abbreviated code, reveal that Charles strongly disapproved of John's marriage and disagreed with his brother over the question of a breach with the Church of England, into which both brothers had been ordained.
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