"In the last analysis, the whole Christ-myth theorizing is a glaring example of obscurantism, if the sin of obscurantism consists in the acceptance of bare possibilities in place of actual probabilities, and of pure surmise in defiance of existing evidence. Those who have not entered far into the laborious inquiry may pretend that the historicity of Jesus is an open question. For me to adopt such a pretence would be sheer intellectual dishonesty. I know I must, as an honest man, reckon with Jesus as a factor in history... This dialectic process whereby the Christ-myth theory discredits itself rests on the simple fact that you cannot attempt to prove the theory without mishandling the evidence."
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Herbert George Wood, Christianity and the Nature of History, London: Cambridge University Press, 1934, pp. xxxiii & 54
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H. G. Wood
Herbert George Wood (2 September 1879 – 9 March 1963), best known as H. G. Wood, was a British theologian and academic.
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