Within twenty years of his death, Jesus's followers regarded him as a pre-existent being who became human, achieved redemption by his death and resurrection, and was exalted to the right hand of God.

What can we say about how Jesus most likely understood himself? Did he call himself the messiah? If so, what did he mean by it? And did he call himself God? Here I want to stake out a clear position: ...

Jesus was a lower-class Jewish preacher from the backwaters of rural Galilee who was condemned for illegal activities and crucified for crimes against the state. Yet not long after his death, his ...

God said, ‘I AM Who I AM. You must tell them: The One Who is called I AM has sent me to you.’ (Exodus 3:14) John’s Gospel uses the Greek phrase, egō eimi, (i.e., “I AM”) as Jesus comes to define his ...

How much did the Blessed Virgin Mary know about Jesus? The Catholic Church teaches that the Holy Spirit revealed to Mary the knowledge of the divinity of Christ and His incarnation, from the beginning ...

When it was noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. At three o’clock Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why ...

His moments of doubt and temptation attest that we can follow him through our own. In many children’s Bibles, the Son of God swoops in like Superman to save the day. In these clearly mythological ...

Christians believe that when Jesus came to Earth, he was both fully God (a person of the Trinity) and fully human. An apostle called Philip asked Jesus to reveal God the Father. However, Jesus ...

The answer to this question reveals the heart of our faith. All of us are much more aware of Islam since September 11. If we did not know it before, we know now that more than 1 billion people on ...