Christian Humanism

Any authentic Christian should be prepared to go beyond received theological verities and look at the historical background to Easter. When this is fused with the gospel accounts, Christ tends to emerge more as a humanist activist than a sacrificial redeemer.

For the past two thousand years, Christians have accepted St Paul’s view that Jesus was the sacrificial Lamb of God whose death on the cross atoned for human sin, providing salvation as a ‘free...