Innocence of Pontius Pilate e-bog

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 Jesusa notion later echoed in the Quran. In the third century, one philosopher raised the notion that, although Pilate had condemned Jesus, hed 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 Pilates 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 Hippos 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 Pilates innocence, the history of empirefrom the first century to the twenty-firstwould have been radically different.