Independent sources for the life of Jesus

Independent sources for the life of Jesus

What is multiple attestation, and why is it important? Independent attestation is a useful tool used by historians for trying to determine whether certain actions or sayings by Jesus, or a historical figure, can be established as historically probable. The more...
Jesus and the Dynamic of the Gospel

Jesus and the Dynamic of the Gospel

For those who can remember as far back as the 1960’s and 70’s, there are two books that may well stand out in your memory. One is J.I. Packer’s Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God and the other, R.B. Kuiper’s God-Centred Evangelism. Both provide a theology of...

Who is Jesus? An Introduction to Christology

Surely the most important question in the world is the one that forms the title for this article: ‘Who is Jesus?’. Answering that question is the task of what we call ‘Christology,’ a word that means ‘the study of Christ’ and that...