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    Who Do They Say! Am? Biblical scholars and theologians are sketching a new portrait of the man called Jesus. : y i Notre bam? Magazine Somnex 1790 by Kerry Temple "74 Jesus. Thad heard the stories before I could see over the pew in front of me, kneeling prayerfully at St. John Berch- ‘man’s Church. I'd heard of the loaves and fishes. the wedding feast at Cana, the Prodigal Son. Jesus walked on water, calmed the storms, raised Lazarus from the dead and said, “Blessed are the meek." | knew about the census and the trip by donkey to Bethle- hhem where there was no room at the inn. I knew of the man- ger and the magi, the shepherds and the angels heard on high. I memorized the words to Silent Night and The Little Drummer Boy, and at midnight Mass, as the Latin mantras and ‘pungent incense floated over me, I prayed for Jesus to come to me at Christmastime. Through 16 years of Catholic education I heard about the carpenter's son who healed the sick, preached to the multi- tudes, suffered, died and was buried . . . and on the third ay rose again, according to the scriptures. Even as a little boy, I knew the formula, I knew about Adam and Eve, the snake and the apple. I un- derstood how God had to send his only son to die for our sins, how his death had reopened the gates of heaven. And how, at the end of time, he would ‘come again to judge the living and the dead. And that the only route to heaven was through him. And it was branded into me early on by the black-robed Daughters of the Cross that those who did't believe would burn in the fires of hell forever ‘The Gospel truth. The Word of God. And the Word was made flesh. ‘So here T was, about to embark on a search for the historical Jesus, to discover who was this man called Messiah, the Son of God, Second Person of the Holy Trinity. Who was he really? And as 1 began to wind my way back through 20 centuries of accu- ‘mulated knowledge, trying to distinguish berween fact and fietion, trying to peel away the layers of em- bellishment, I realized I was running counter to ‘much of what had been ingrained in me. And I felt ‘myself entering a realm that felt foreign and strange ‘and disturbing, But I wanted to know the truth about the charismatic holy man who roamed the Galilean ‘countryside, and how he became the Christ. I all began because I wanted to know the truth about ‘THE JESUS DEBATE In many ways the figure of Jesus is like a poem—or, as one prominent Catholic scholar wrote, “Jesus is ‘a parable.” The story of his life has not come t0 us like a news report or documentary film that presents historical events literally and factually. It is more like poetry, which conveys a different kind of truth through symbol and imagery, and opens to a multi- tude of interpretations. Kerry Temple is managing editor of this magazine. So with Jesus. His parables, teachings and acts are aban-

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