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The Innocence of Pontius Pilate - How the Roman Trial of Jesus Shaped History (Hardcover)
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The Innocence of Pontius Pilate - How the Roman Trial of Jesus Shaped History (Hardcover)
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The gospels and ancient historians agree: Jesus was sentenced to
death by Pontius Pilate, the Roman imperial prefect in Jerusalem.
To this day, Christians of all churches confess that Jesus died
'under Pontius Pilate'. But what exactly does that mean? Within
decades of Jesus' death, Christians began suggesting that it was
the Judaean authorities who had crucified Jesus--a notion later
echoed in the Qur'an. In the third century, one philosopher raised
the notion that, although Pilate had condemned Jesus, he'd done so
justly; this idea survives in one of the main strands of modern New
Testament criticism. So what is the truth of the matter? And what
is the history of that truth? David Lloyd Dusenbury reveals
Pilate's 'innocence' as not only a neglected theological question,
but a recurring theme in the history of European political thought.
He argues that Jesus' interrogation by Pilate, and Augustine of
Hippo's North African sermon on that trial, led to the concept of
secularity and the logic of tolerance emerging in early modern
Europe. Without the Roman trial of Jesus, and the arguments over
Pilate's innocence, the history of empire--from the first century
to the twenty-first--would have been radically different.
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