I was thinking of calling this last article in my Lives of Jesus series the Conclusion, but that would seem to imply that I was about to give you the answer. Sorry. You'll have to work that one out for yourselves. But what I'd like to do is share some thoughts that have been developing over the last three months as I've read or re-read the various books one after another. The single statement that impressed me the most was this one from Albert Nolan . We cannot deduce anything about Jesus from what we think we know about God; we must now deduce everything about God from what we know about Jesus.... To say now suddenly that Jesus is divine does not change our understanding of Jesus, it changes our understanding of divinity.... If we claim to be Christians - followers of Jesus as the Christ - then he should be at the centre of our faith. Everything else should flow from him. Yet so often Christianity starts somewhere else. Most often, it starts with Paul and his
'Contemplating the teeming life of the shore, we have an uneasy sense of the communication of some universal truth that lies just beyond our grasp.' - Rachel Carson