It is impossible to avoid the suspicion that historical Jesus research is a very safe place to do theology and call it history, to do autobiography a…

- John Dominic Crossan

What I notice, as a historian reading stories about so-called nature miracles, the walking on the water, or the miraculous catch of fishes, they're d…

- John Dominic Crossan

The ... challenge of Christmas is this: justice is what happens when all receive a fair share of God's world and only such distributive justice can e…

- John Dominic Crossan

I find anthropology is a marvellous discipline to shock me out of my own world into another world.

- John Dominic Crossan

If somebody says, you know, to love your enemies, you could say, 'Well I'm going to love them to death.' We've done that sort of stuff so it can be d…

- John Dominic Crossan

Jesus is what God looks like in sandals

- John Dominic Crossan

I'm talking from the point of view of the States, we tend to assassinate people like Jesus, or if we don't we simply marginalise them. Oprah would ha…

- John Dominic Crossan

Jesus called for nonviolent resistance to Rome and just distribution of land and food. He was crucified because he threatened Roman stability -- not …

- John Dominic Crossan

Jesus' death by crucifixion under Pontius Pilate is as sure as anything historical can ever be. For if no follower of Jesus had written anything for …

- John Dominic Crossan