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Article: The Human Christ: The Search for the Historical Jesus.
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
- Article date:
- October 1, 1998
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THE HUMAN CHRIST:. THE SEARCH FOR THE HISTORICAL JESUS. By Charlotte Allen. Free Press. 359 pp. $26.
When journalists take on intellectual history, the results are some times frightful and sometimes delightful. In the present case, reading gives more pleasure than pain. Charlotte Allen--a contributing editor to Lingua Franca--is a journalist who has made several earlier forays into the world of academic religionists, most notably in her piece devoted to the Jesus Seminar, "Away With the Manger" (Lingua Franca, February 1995), and in essays on the quest for Q and the political fissures within religious studies departments in American universities. Her short essays ...