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Article: In search of the gospel truth

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July 9, 1995
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TWO trends are de rigueur in 20th-century Christian theology. One is to make Jesus more accessible by humanising him. This has produced a plethora of books about Jesus the man of existential doubt, Jesus the lover, Jesus the gay leader and so on. The other trend has been to back the importance of inter-faith dialogue. What Christians can learn from Jews, Jews from Moslems and what we can all learn from the Dalai Lama. The authors of The Original Jesus set out to capitalise on both trends by claiming that not only was Jesus just an ordinary bloke trying to get by but also that he was really a Jewish Buddhist.

Elmar Gruber and Holger Kersten, two German writers, last left their mark on ...

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