vol. 40, Issue #4

Online Journal Article: The Historical Jesus Of Ancient Unbelief - Douglas S. Huffman - Jets 40/4 (December 1997) 551–564

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THE HISTORICAL JESUS OF ANCIENT UNBELIEF -
DOUGLAS S. HUFFMAN - JETS 40/4 (December 1997) 551–564

Excerpt
Christianity is not quite two thousand years young. The term “ancient”
in this paper’s title, in view of history’s millennia prior to Christ’s birth,
seems hardly applicable to studies of the life of Jesus of Nazareth.
But “ancient” is used here as a relative term. The focus of this study is not what
people of recent centuries have thought about Jesus as an historical figure.
Rather, it concentrates on what people thought about him in the first few
centuries AD. In the early Church, Christians identified Jesus as Christ. Now, in the
modern Church, many consider themselves believers in the Christ of faith
(as developed by the teachings of the Church) without believing in the identity
of that Christ as the actual, historical person of Jesus. --from the first page of the article