Early questions about Jesus.

Catholic Insight | March 1, 2004| | Copyright

Did Jesus exist?

The need for this essay goes back to the ancient heresy of Docetism, hinted at in 1 John 4.1-3 and 2 John 7, and developed by 2nd-century Gnostics to the point where Christ's earthly appearance was an illusion, likewise his death, since he was replaced on the cross by Judas or Simon of Cyrene.

After long abeyance, the ideological pot unsurprisingly heated up in the 18th century, the supposed 'Age of Reason'; several exchanges in Boswell's Life of Johnson bear good witness.

The debate was sharpened in 1835 by D.F. Strauss' The Life ...

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