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Title: Reaching into Plato's Cave – Exploring the tensions between Christianity and the 21st century

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Literary scholars such as JR Tolkien and CS Lewis see Christianity as not only the fulfillment of ancient Hebrew prophecies, but also the deep-seated yearnings of the human heart, expressed through a multitude of myths and religions.

In previous episodes, we looked at hominids a few hundred tho...


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They were written by GrecoRoman elites in the 2nd century, and Paul radically influenced their writing!?

Christians sitting in the pews have long had the idea that the Gospels were written by four individuals, at least of three of whom were Jews (Luke may not have been), and two of whom were part of Jesus’s inner circle (the other two got t...


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Paul and John (and modern Evangelicals) seem to paint a different portrait of Jesus than those who walked and talked with him.

Jesus of Nazareth as … the Logos? [image created by Andrew … thanks Andrew!]

Last week, we looked at the first half of that paradoxical Christian expressi...


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The people reported as having walked and talked with Jesus in the first century all saw him primarily as a Jewish Messiah.

Jesus and his disorganized, unarmed group of disciples re-imagined as a conquering hero leading an armed resistance against the Roman Empire [image created by Andrew … thanks Andrew!]

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