When History and Faith Collide

Download or read book When History and Faith Collide written by Charles W. Hedrick and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hedrick explores the tension, or collision, that occurs when studying the Jesus of faith with the critical eye of historical scholarship. He outlines the nature of historical inquiry, gives a brief history of how scholars have understood Jesus, and indentifies the essential issues confronting the reader of the New Testament Gospel accounts of Jesus: discrepancies, contradictions, and the differences as well as strong similarities among different writers.