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

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

- 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

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

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

Jesus told parables. When he wanted to say something really profound about God, he went into parable. I don't find it surprising then that when earli…

- 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 can be absolutely comfortable with an apocalyptic Jesus because he was simply wrong. As long as he's wrong I don't worry about him, and basically e…

- John Dominic Crossan