issues—whether Jesus’ biographies were

“I don’t want to base my life on a symbol,” he said resolutely. “I want reality, and the Christian faith has always been rooted in reality. What’s not rooted in reality is the faith of liberal scholars. They’re the ones who are following a pipe dream, but Christianity is not a pipe dream.

said Mark ‘made no mistake’ and did not include

an unsympathetic witness to the success and spread of Christianity, based on

which

and many of the Greeks. He was the Christ. When Pilate, upon