September 20, 2002 7:30 PM
The Living Jesus
A leading challenger of the Jesus Seminar offered a timely look at the quest for the historical Jesus. Luke Timothy Johnson explored what history can and cannot contribute to the longest Christological controversy in the history of the church. Johnson, who teaches New Testament and Christian Origins at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University, articulated a faith founded not upon historic reconstruction but on the resurrected Jesus proclaimed by the gospels. The Jesus he advocates is above all a living figure of the present that transcends historic limitations.