Showing posts with label crucifix. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crucifix. Show all posts

Monday, July 4, 2016

The implement of Jesus' execution

crux simplex, from a 16th century woodcut
Justus Lipsius

Swedish theologian Gunnar Samuelsson has published a thesis in which he states that there is no historical support for the notion that Jesus died on a cross. If this is true, what effect should it have on Christians?