(Mark Shea, in his recent CWR article, “The Messiah We Need, Not the Messiah We Want”, delves into this very nicely.) For my part, I’ve tackled this in detail on two specific fronts. And a number of those folks are curious about, or even obsessed by, seemingly original explanations about the “truth” regarding Jesus. Anyone who follows the field, even as a curious amateur, knows this to be the case.īut-and it’s an important “but”-99.9% of people don’t know this. If there is one thing I have learned in reading many different books on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, it is this: there is nothing-absolutely nothing-new under the sun when it comes to grand theories and elaborate meta-narratives attempting to explain (or explain away) the man from Nazareth. My personal library has an entire bookcase of works of Christology, ranging from left to right, high to low, liberal to conservative.

But the study of Scripture and the specific study of Christology has been of great interest to me since I was a young man. I am not a Scripture scholar, nor do I play one on television. Each individual recreated him in the image of his own personality.” - Albert Schweitzer, The Quest of the Historical Jesus (1906) “And so each subsequent epoch in theology found its own ideas in Jesus, and could find no other way of bringing him to life.

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