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A Christological Catechism: New Testament Answers is unavailable, but you can change that!

Joseph A. Fitzmyer presents 25 succinctly phrased and candidly answered questions about Jesus. His book covers issues such as the virgin birth, the infancy narratives, Jesus’ claim to be the messiah, the historical accuracy and significance of the resurrection and ascension texts, the place of Peter and the apostles, the importance of the Apocryphal gospels, and more. This book holds insights for...

The sources of our information about the Jesus of history are limited. It might be well to stress that “the historical Jesus,” i.e. what modern historical investigation can recover about him, is only part of the real portrait of “the Jesus of history.” Jesus of Nazareth or the real “Jesus of history” led a full life as a Palestinian Jew and said or did many things to which modern historical investigation has no access. What can be reconstructed