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Did Jesus Exist?: Rediscovering the Historical Jesus Kindle Edition

by Mark Craig (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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There are many books about Jesus currently, some of them asking the bold question: Did Jesus even exist? Authors like Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy, Acharya S and Kenneth Humphreys are quick to make claims that Jesus is a fiction but only present a limited amount of evidence to substantiate this claim. "Did Jesus Exist?" identifies and evaluates the available evidence and makes a strong case for the high probability that Jesus did, indeed, exist. Accordingly, this is a book for anyone interested in pondering the evidence and assembling a more complete picture of the historical Jesus.
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    May 14, 2015
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00XPFY3HS
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 14, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1197 KB
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Mark Craig

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Mark Craig has published nine books on the topic of spirituality. Craig is currently a school teacher in Brisbane, Australia and served as a Catholic Priest for several years prior to this. He has a Bachelor of Theology, a Graduate Certificate in Religious Education and a Master’s Degree in Education, specialising in Religion.

Craig acknowledges the divide between Spirituality and Religion exploring in a new way the indestructible non-material dimension to human identity. The problem, he suggests, is that too many mistake the metaphors used by religion for ultimate truth. Even the word 'God' is a metaphor pointing beyond itself to a more profound reality than words can capture.

Craig has been published in academic Journals, including the Australian Journal of Religious Education (JRE), the Journal of Catholic School Studies (JCSS), now defunct, as well as the EJournal of Theology. His website religiousandspiritualbooks.weebly.com provides further opportunity for spiritual reflection and discussion.

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  • Jayne Craig
    5.0 out of 5 stars Was a great book to sink your teeth into
    Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2015
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    Was a great book to sink your teeth into. Created so much food for thought, a must read for an open mind.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars This carefully written book makes accessible the various schools of biblical scholarship.
    Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2017
    We should be grateful for Mark Gerard Craig’s Did Jesus Exist? Rediscovering the Historical Jesus, first published on CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015. The writer generously includes readers in the fruits of his own dogged pursuit and unpacking of diverse texts, “in an attempt to find a middle path between the two extremes of a literal supernatural and historical Jesus, and a non-literal mythical and fictitious Jesus” (p. 7).
    This carefully written book makes accessible the various schools of biblical scholarship and assesses a deal of speculative material. It should entice the beginner in New Testament studies to read further, furnishing as it does Craig’s own road map for the journey. For these readers, a glossary and a map of New Testament times would be useful additions.
    One benefit of this book is that it eschews merely sensational claims, of the type commonly bolstered by archaeological “evidence” in quasi-historical documentary television programs and their associated books. Craig is a serious student who expects much of his readers: perseverance is rewarded with satisfying insight.
    For believing Christians, Craig’s book could serve both as a vade mecum of choice as well as something of an elastic band: unexamined assumptions may be stretched, although Craig asserts that for him “Jesus is a real person” (p. 7). For those who would pray better, this book may also be stored beneath one’s kneeler or prayer seat: a fine statement of how a well-informed mind may become ready for the choice-leap which hands over the controls to the heart.
    Peter Webb is a Brisbane writer
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  • Sue Larsen
    4.0 out of 5 stars This book makes for an interesting read. Although, ...
    Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2015
    This book makes for an interesting read. Although, I'd come across some of the insights previously, I was exposed to new ones as well. Mark Craig does a remarkable job of synthesising an eclectic range of scholarly perspectives into a response to the question within the title.
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  • Sharon Kathleen Johnson
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Righteous Reign of a Good God
    Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2015
    Mark Craig takes a diplomatically middle-of-the-road stance on the Historical Jesus debate that has been raging among scholars for the last couple of decades. Like John Dominic Crossan, Craig may appear radical at first, in his fastidiously meticulous unpacking of scriptural and apocryphal literature, but his conclusions are on the conservative side--that there WAS a rural rabbi whose teachings reached out to an unwashed unsung rabble, whose message was about social justice and love, but that reconstructing him as a historical entity is impossible because of the multiple Judaic, Greek, and Roman layers of metaphysical mutation that muddy the waters. According to Craig, the original Jesus was not likely to have claimed Messianic or divine status. He simply promulgated a utopian Judaic vision of the righteous reign of a good God which ended up having a remarkable resonance with the poor and powerless. Craig is in alignment with the Jesus Seminar in this. Ultimately, Craig is more concerned with the message rather than the messenger, in that he believes, like Joseph Campbell, that ALL religion is allegorical instead of literal, and one can only judge a belief by the behavior that results from it, not the idiosyncratic ideology it espouses.
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  • Carl stevenson
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good job of presenting all perspectives
    Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2023
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    I liked how the author made available for the readers, several different sources and opinions on the subject matter. I'm not sure if he clarified anything for me but he certainly made me think about it!
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