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THE QUESTION
Remains of Jesus
If the remains of Jesus had been definitively found, how would that change your view of Christianity?
Posted by
Sally Quinn and Jon Meacham on April 4, 2007 6:24 AM
FROM THE PANEL
WWJD: What Would Jefferson Do?
One of the basic truths of Christianity is that many of its adherents experience Jesus as a presence in their lives.
Posted by Gustav Niebuhr, on April 10, 2007 10:05 AM
Can These Bones Live?
A collection of bones, even if “proven” to be those of Jesus of Nazareth, is irrelevant to my view of Christianity.
Posted by Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, on April 10, 2007 8:51 AM
The Silly Season of the Supernatural
You either believe that Jesus rose from the dead or you don't. The proposition is not subject to any kind of natural proof.
Posted by Susan Jacoby, on April 10, 2007 7:00 AM
No Resurrection, No Hope
Odds are good that people will forget the bones talk by next Easter.
Posted by Martin Marty, on April 9, 2007 12:13 PM
No Impact At All
Does the power of his message of ethics and love change one iota if it is determined that these are his bones?
Posted by David Saperstein, on April 9, 2007 8:49 AM
A Different View of Jesus
Muslims believe Jesus was a Prophet, rejecting notions of his divinity and the trinitarian concept of God.
Posted by Pamela K. Taylor, on April 9, 2007 7:09 AM
Easter About Life, not Death
To think that the central meaning of Easter depends upon something spectacular happening to Jesus’ corpse misses the point of the Easter message and risks trivializing the story.
Posted by Marcus Borg, on April 7, 2007 10:55 AM
Wounds Not Bones
Faith in Jesus’ resurrection is a declaration of Christian treason against any Empire—yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
Posted by John Dominic Crossan, on April 7, 2007 9:36 AM
The Experience of an Ordinary Believer
am thankful and glad that my Christian faith has never rested on certainty about the meaning of any Scriptural story or tenet of doctrine.
Posted by James Anderson, on April 7, 2007 9:10 AM
Jesus is a Shaft of Light
More than his bones, it is Jesus’s message and example which move me.
Posted by Eboo Patel, on April 7, 2007 8:06 AM
Is the Resurrection the Next Step in Evolution?
The more we love, the more we are united to the cosmic Christ because that is what the resurrection is all about: the victory of love over death.
Posted by Thomas J. Reese, S.J., on April 6, 2007 9:11 AM
If Christ Be Not Risen
My Christian faith is rooted in the fact of the resurrection.
Posted by William J. Byron, on April 6, 2007 8:39 AM
Resurrection, not Resuscitation
If one does not understand resurrection as physical resuscitation then what happened to the body of Jesus is of no importance.
Posted by John Shelby Spong, on April 6, 2007 7:07 AM
Christian Hope Found in the Resurrection
As one of a small group of advisers to President Nixon who was charged with obstructing justice, I have personal reasons for believing the historicity of the resurrection.
Posted by Charles "Chuck" Colson, on April 5, 2007 10:32 AM
Nothing Definite about Definitive Proof
These questions are bogus because they are based on fanciful speculation, not on facts.
Posted by Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo, on April 5, 2007 7:40 AM
True Faith is not a Science Project
Anyone who suggests to modern-day Christian believers that DNA has positively identified the remains of Jesus would be engaged in what most if not all Christians would call the greatest subversion of all heresies in the name of science.
Posted by Sulayman Nyang, on April 4, 2007 10:03 AM
Jesus Lives or Christianity Dies
Take Easter away, and we are at best like the first-century Jews, still hoping for redemption to happen but with no sign that it has just yet.
Posted by Nicholas T. Wright, on April 4, 2007 9:22 AM
On Depriving Christianity of the Resurrection
Claims of such a discovery are patently ridiculous.
Posted by Gardner Calvin Taylor, on April 4, 2007 8:44 AM
Digging for Bones No Way to Find Jesus
Obviously, finding His bones would disprove THE cornerstone of the Christian faith, but they won't find them.
Posted by Cal Thomas, on April 4, 2007 7:17 AM
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