Historical fiction Quote by Ben Witherington

“If Jesus had been an actual historical figure we have a thorny paradox. Either this Jesus was a remarkable individual who said and did…

— David Fitzgerald

The author is aware that the essence of the Christian faith is perfectly independent of his criticism. The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles,…

— David Friedrich Strauss

“If you limit the search for truth and forbid men anywhere, in any way, to seek knowledge, you paralyze the vital force of truth…

— Phillips Brooks

“Jesus was not a theologian. He was God who told stories.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

“It is well enough known, that in the early ages of Christianity, many silly and fraudulent persons composed fictitious narratives of the life and…

— Robert Taylor

“For he also researched the history of Christianity and felt it was based on many earlier fraudulent mistakes made by those bent on perverting…

— Lee Vickers

The more I started studying the historical Jesus, the man who lived 2,000 years ago... the more I started to realize that there was…

— Reza Aslan

“The reason we haven't yet fully understood the Jesus story is that we are gospel-based rather than Bible-based Christians!”

— Eli Of Kittim

I think if you place Jesus firmly in the historical context... you can make very educated hypotheses and guesses about how he lived.

— Reza Aslan

“But Jesus knows well that we are people of story and grit. We need to see theological ideas in messy human form so they…

— Zondervan Publishing

“If three men couldn’t see eye to eye on who among them was and was not the real Jesus, your chances of swaying someone…

— David McRaney

I think the fault is more with historicists who have stubbornly failed to develop a good theory of historicity. By simply resting on the…

— Earl Doherty