The underlying message in John Dominic Crossan`s works, as set forth in the Jan. 21 Tempo article by Dennis Polkow, appears to be that the Christ of traditional church teaching never actually existed, but is the sum of accretions piled on a meager set of biographical data by generations of rather imaginative theological mythmakers.
If you remove from history all that the church has consistently taught-the virgin birth, the miracles, the claim to divinity, the resurrection-but remain a Christian, you should have your head examined.
If you claim to believe all these things even while asserting that the church based its belief in them on unreliable evidence it has misinterpreted for almost 2,000 years, I must ask, who do you think you`re kidding?
Those who give money to institutions that foster the activities of such people are in my opinion contributing to the deconstruction of Christianity.
