Register now for my online course on the historicity of Jesus! Learn the best arguments pro and con (so not just my case against it, but also the best arguments and evidence for it), as well as the cultural and historical background of the origin of Christianity (invaluable knowledge no matter what you believe about Jesus). How could Christianity begin without a Jesus? Find out!
This is the best chance to get a thorough look at the whole historicity debate of the last decade, and get to ask or challenge a Ph.D. expert in the field with all the questions you ever had about it.
When you register you will be given two options. You can register for the regular tuition or pay a higher tuition toward an Academy Certificate.
And let everyone know you’ve met who’s wanted to debate or explore this issue. (Christians are welcome!)
We’ll go through my book On the Historicity of Jesus chapter by chapter and discuss its contents, and look at some additional resources and challenges. By the end, you’ll be able to converse informedly about all the main issues in the debate: what the best evidence is for the historical Jesus, why it can be questioned and how, and how you can decide for yourself whether theories without a historical Jesus are better or not. You will also have the opportunity to ask me all the questions you want, challenge me with all the arguments you’ve run into or want to pose, and otherwise pick my brain on all the related issues you think important.
And of course, what I don’t cover in this course, probably isn’t true or usable. So this is a chance to see what stands out as reliable, amidst all the bad arguments for Jesus being mythical that infest the internet. Want to be inoculated against the “fake news” in the mythicism debate, so you can only stand on good arguments and not bad ones, so you aren’t fooled into believing what isn’t well founded? This is the course for you!
Sign up! Questioning or Defending the Historicity of Jesus begins June 1 and goes one month, covering four units, one per week. There are no timed events so you can do the readings or post questions or engage in the forum discussions whenever you want, any day and time that suits you. All the course materials, including the discussions, stay available for you to consult or download for an additional month after that.
The only course text you must acquire (if you don’t already have it) is my book On the Historicity of Jesus. Everything else will be provided. For a more complete course description, and how to register, visit the course announcement page. Note: For a $10 discount on the tuition, enter code 2277437 during registration. A reward for reading all this way through!
I was going to sign up for the course on the historicity of Jesus, but the only options were two courses on defending historicity & I wasn’t sure which course I should sign up for or whether either one was even the source in question.
One is labeled certification for students seeking an academy certificate. But everyone else can do it at a lower tuition; just select the non-cert course option.