Bruce Marshall on Understanding Scripture according to Joseph Ratzinger

The Church can give modern biblical scholarship all the credit it deserves yet rightly refuse it the final say in discerning what the Bible means. From the archives:https://t.co/l6GwA4cNd0

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A Product of Western "Semi-Arianism"?

For contemporary monothelites, by contrast, Jesus’s humanity is firmly in the driver’s seat. To the extent that we may say that Jesus is divine, this is at best a secondary claim, derived from the historical Jesus, the product of a scientific quest.

First Things: Jesus: Less Than Divine by Hans Boersma

Giacomo Biffi on Christ

Sandro Magister: More On the Jesus “of History.” The lesson of Giacomo Biffi, a Great Theologian and Cardinal

Whom to Follow?

CWR: Lord, Not Legend: A Review of Brant Pitre’s The Case for Jesus by Dr. Leroy Huizenga

The new book by a notable young Scripture scholar addresses both the dominant paradigm in academic biblical studies and the more popular errors about Jesus and the New Testament.