This page contains links to pages that share scholars’ statements of faith.
James Tabor
James Tabor’s YouTube Interviews
- Reclaiming Primitive Christianity Part 1 w/ Dr James Tabor on the Ebionites, Dead Sea Scrolls & Jesus
- Reclaiming Primitive Christianity Part 2: Exploring the Historical Jesus with Dr. James Tabor
- Restoring Abrahamic Faith Again – For the First Time – United Israel World Union
Finding a Jesus Before Christianity by James Tabor at YouTube. See the transcript of the video in his directory in DropBox. Below are two paragraphs from the transcript.
Islam insists that neither Jesus nor Muhammad brought a new religion. Both sought to call people back to what might be called Abrahamic faith. This is precisely what we find emphasized in the book of James.
Since Muslims reject all of the Pauline affirmations about Jesus and thus the central claims of Orthodox Christianity, the gulf between Islam and Christianity on Jesus is a wide one. However, there is little about the view of Jesus, represented by the Jesus dynasty, that conflicts with Islam’s basic perception. The Christianity that we know from the Q Source, from the letter of James, from the Didache, and some of our other surviving Jewish-Christian sources, represents a version of the Jesus faith that can actually unite rather than divide Jews, Christians, and Muslims.
Professor Tabor–What Do You Believe? May 18, 2021
From James Tabor’s Patreon post here
Mars Hill, [photo immediately above the paragraph] where Paul talked with the Stoics and Epicureans according to Acts 17:27-28. I realize his “address” is composed by the author of Acts, but the two quotations from the Greek poets “He is not very far from each one of us” and “in Him we live, and moved, and have our being” I find to be a most elegant summary of Process Theism, to which I find myself quite drawn.
Extract from Standing in the Shadow of Schweitzer: What Can We Say About an Apocalyptic Jesus?
by James D. Tabor.
In Schweitzer’s final and most important chapter, he argues that the union of what he calls “thoroughgoing skepticism” and “thoroughgoing eschatology” represents an impassible and enduring obstacle to traditional Christian theology. Jesus, according to Schweitzer, “lays hold of the wheel of the world to set it moving on that last revolution which is to bring all ordinary history to a close. It refuses to turn, and he throws himself on it. Then it does turn; and crushes him” (370–71). And yet, even with this perspective—this “negative theology,” as Schweitzer calls it, of a “failed messiah”—he leaves the reader with his final chapter that he calls “Results.” He writes that “Jesus means something to our world because a mighty spiritual force streams forth from him and flows through our time also,” and “it is not Jesus as historically known, but Jesus as spiritually arisen within men, who is significant for our time and can help it. Not the historical Jesus, but the spirit which goes forth from him and in the spirits of men strives for new influence and rule, is that which overcomes the world” (399, 401).
Ross Nichols
In this video, Ross Nichols shares the times of his youth through what he believes today.
His closing statement – As my faith grew and as I searched for a deeper relationship, I wanted to know, what does it mean to really follow Jesus, to walk as he did? And it’s that desire that brought me to this place. Today, my faith is the faith of Jesus. Today, my Bible is the Bible of Jesus. And today, my God is the God of Jesus. You see, I followed Jesus out of Christianity. I followed Jesus from a religion about Jesus to a faith of Jesus.
