"The Christ: A Critical Review and Analysis of the Evidences of His Existence" by John E. Remsburg is a questioning exploration that reviews the evidence for Jesus Christ's actual life. Crafted in the late 1800s, it wrestles with traditional Christian views and challenges the truth of both Jesus's godlike nature and stories from the Bible. The book centers on whether or not the New Testament's Christ is made up. Opening quotes set a serious stage, with thinkers like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thomas Carlyle urging people to doubt Christ's existence. Remsburg then argues that a regular person named Jesus might have lived, but that the amazing, divine, miracle-working Christ is just a myth. The book's beginning highlights problems like a lack of solid historical proof from that era and disagreements in the gospels. It also says that later changes turned a possible real person into a legendary figure full of miraculous tales.
The Christ: A Critical Review and Analysis of the Evidences of His Existence
By John E. (John Eleazer) Remsburg
Is the Christ of religious doctrine fact or fiction, or a fabrication built upon the legend of a man?
Summary
About the AuthorJohn Eleazer Remsburg was an ardent religious skeptic in America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
In his book 1909 book The Christ, Remsburg lists forty-two ancient writers who did not mention Jesus or whose mentions are suspect, and this list has appeared in many subsequent books that question the historicity of Jesus.
Remsburg himself wrote that the man Jesus may have existed, but that the Christ of the gospels is mythical.
John Eleazer Remsburg was an ardent religious skeptic in America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In his book 1909 book The Christ, Remsburg lists forty-two ancient writers who did not mention Jesus or whose mentions are suspect, and this list has appeared in many subsequent books that question the historicity of Jesus. Remsburg himself wrote that the man Jesus may have existed, but that the Christ of the gospels is mythical.
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