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 LIBERAL, CONSERVATIVE, TRADITIONAL When it comes to studying, writing about, or just having opinions about Jesus, we tend to divide people into liberals and traditionalists/conservatives – though of course this covers a whole range of opinions. The traditionalist tendency sees Jesus as he has been presented by Christian teaching, and sees the Gospels as accurate, reliable accounts of his life. So Jesus is the Son of God, divine, born of a virgin; he performed miracles and rose from the dead. The liberal tendency sees Jesus as a religious teacher about whom many fantastic stories developed. It attempts to cut through the legendary aspects of the Gospels, and their "unreliable" accounts of his words, to uncover the real Jesus. More definitions |
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