Wheat & Tares welcomes guest poster Bill Reel once more for a discussion on “David Bokovoy: Historical Jesus”, an interview that discusses what we are to make of Jesus in the Historical sources.
At Mormon Discussion Podcast we interviewed David Bokovoy this Week
Scholars and Authors like Bart Erhman take the Divine Jesus and strip him down to a rebellious itenerant preacher. Is there a faithful way to address the same issues and yet hold firm to faith?
– What do you think of the Historical Jesus discussion?
– Has this topic opened your mind to new ways to interpret the early church and Jesus Christ?
– How do you reconcile such a polarizing topic?
Also there is on the home page 4 additional episodes featuring N.T. Wright and a fundamental conservative approach to the Historical Jesus.
This episode is found HERE
Bill Reel is the host of Mormon Discussion Podcast. The podcast tries to deal with the tough issues forthrightly while “leading with faith”.
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I have not listened to this yet, but find the discussion about the historical Jesus always fascinating.
I have just finished “Zealot” by Reza Aslan, and although not as thoroughly researched and documented, paints a very interesting portrait of the life and times of Jesus of Nazareth.
The thing that is interesting is how the Jesus movement was able to gain traction in the time period following his death, and how much of the narrative that we use today in the church is so suspect. We really don’t give proper context to the history and sociality surrounding Jesus nor the writings in the New Testament, so that we are always looking at some romanticized view of who this man was and what he taught.
Looking forward to listening and hearing more. To me, it is still an enigma.