Homebrewed Christianity Podcast

Dr. Helen K. Bond is Professor of Christian Origins & Head of the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh. She returns to the podcast for a wide-ranging conversation tackling topics from members of the HBC online Lent group, Jesus De/Constructed. In our chat we discuss… what is the difference between the historical Jesus and the Christ of faith? how does a historical Jesus scholar do their work? the cultural/social/political/religious matrix of the historical Jesus the role of honor and shame in Jesus’ culture the entanglement of religion and politics what is the scholarly consensus around the historical Jesus? the political potency of Pilate’s pagan foreign troops in town for the Passover what does it mean for Jesus to be an Apocalyptic Jewish figure? it’s the end of the world, but what do “end” and “world” mean? how did the ancient world understand religion, divinity, and god-talk? how should we understand the titles of Jesus in the NT and his historical self-consciousness? what does