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Pilate and Jesus [electronic resource]

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Pontius Pilate is one of the most enigmatic figures in Christian theology. The only non-Christian to be named in the Nicene Creed, he is presented as a cruel colonial overseer in secular accounts, as a conflicted judge convinced of Jesus's innocence in the Gospels, and as either a pious Christian or a virtual demon in later Christian writings. This book takes Pilate's role in the trial of Jesus as a starting point for investigating the function of legal judgment in Western society and the ways that such judgment requires us to adjudicate the competing claims of the eternal and the historical.

Title Pilate and Jesus [electronic resource].
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Palo Alto : Stanford University Press
Creation Date 2015
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Content Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- § Pilate and Jesus -- Glosses -- Bibliography
Series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
Extent 1 online resource (85 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997011079109105171
MARC RECORDS
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