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In her new book, “Miracles and Wonder,” Elaine Pagels tries to find the man behind the faith. By Jack Hanson Jack Hanson is a writer and editor and a scholar of religion, literature and culture. When ...

SYDNEY >> Did a man called Jesus of Nazareth walk the earth? Discussions over whether the figure known as the “Historical Jesus” actually existed primarily reflect disagreements among atheists.

Currently making the news is a report on a reconstruction of what is being called Jesus’s face. The reconstruction, by British anatomical artist Richard Neave, is actually more than a decade old, but ...

Monsignor John P. Meier, who devoted his scholarly career to validating Jesus as a historical figure who could be reconciled with the Christ of religious faith, died Oct. 18 in South Bend, Indiana. He ...

A doll representing the infant Jesus in St. Catherine's, the Franciscan church in the town of Bethlehem. David Silverman/Getty Images Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West ...