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Part II: “It’s Jesus, Christian!”– Liberal Struggles Hebrews 1:1-4 Liberals often struggle with “Jesus.” Marcus Borg thought we needed to hit the reset

I apologize for an unusually long break in blogging, but I did some traveling and took some time off during spring break, and then since then have been

For more than three decades, he worked on his multivolume series, “A Marginal Jew,” drawing praise from Pope Benedict XVI.

Monsignor John P. Meier, University of Notre Dame professor, Catholic priest and renowned biblical scholar, died Oct. 18 at age 80. He published nearly ...

Two scholars who died this week—Albert Nolan, O.P., and Msgr. John P. Meier—made enormous contributions to our understanding of the historical Jesus and his message.

(RNS) — Meier spent years arguing that faith and scientific research could enliven biblical scholarship about the life of Jesus.

Saints and theologians, not to mention authors and poets, have long debated this thorny question: Why did Judas do it? To answer that we need to know something about the man himself.

The Gospel of Mark, addressed to an early Christian community perplexed by failure and suffering, presents Jesus as suffering Messiah and Son of God. Recognizing that failure and suffering continue to perplex Christians today, world-renowned New Testament scholar and theologian Francis Moloney marries the rich contributions of traditional historical scholarship with the contemporary approach to the Gospels as narrative. Now in paperback, this commentary combines the highest-level scholarship wi...