How did Christian apologists such as Justin Martyr try to reconcile this conflict or apparent conflict ... the similarities are notable. JUSTIN ON JESUS The similarities of Jesus and other figures ...

It also needs an alternative.” In this age of Christian nationalism and MAGA zealots, it would do well for followers of Jesus to modify Klein’s line: The church needs a resistance. We also ...

The attempt to project contemporary politics or our own aspirations onto such a sacred figure is always problematic.

They included stories of Jesus' miracles and healings ... Matthew wrote for a Jewish community in conflict with the Pharisaic Judaism that dominated Jewish life in the postwar period.