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- From: kasprj@jec310.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak)
- Subject: Re: _Jesus: A Life_ by A.N. Wilson
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- Organization: The Big Wedge
- References: <63119@mimsy.umd.edu> <1992Dec31.181009.17808@newsgate.sps.mot.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 19:02:44 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.181009.17808@newsgate.sps.mot.com>, cottle@prism1 (Rick Cottle) writes:
- |> In article <63119@mimsy.umd.edu> mangoe@cs.umd.edu (Charley Wingate)
- |> writes:
- |> > Albert Schweitzer had these books pegged years before they were written.
- |> > There is no historical Jesus-- at least, there is no Jesus which a
- |> historian
- |> > can reconstruct. Only the Jesus of religion has been left to us.
- |>
- |> I don't follow. Are you saying that there was no Jesus, or that
- |> Jesus Is Not whom religion says He is, or that Jesus IS whom
- |> religion says He is?
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- I believe he's saying that the religious version of Jesus is the only one
- we have a clear picture of. There's very little historical data about Jesus
- outside of the religious literature.
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