{"id":29023,"date":"2025-10-12T17:41:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T21:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=29023"},"modified":"2025-10-15T17:22:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T21:22:54","slug":"who-do-you-think-jesus-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/10\/12\/who-do-you-think-jesus-was\/","title":{"rendered":"Who do you think Jesus was?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_5621.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_5621.jpeg\" alt=\"Who do you think Jesus was?\" class=\"wp-image-29022\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Who do you think Jesus was?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t have a simple answer for you, because I am all too aware that the significance of the answer and the importance of getting it right vary with the perspective of both asker and answerer. The article on &#8220;Jesus&#8221; in the Encyclopedia of Religion has a good overview of how that question has been approached historically and religiously. The New Catholic Encyclopedia has articles on Jesus in the Bible and Jesus in theology which cover the Catholic perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t have a simple answer for you, because I am all too aware that the significance of the answer and the importance of getting it right vary with the perspective of both asker and answerer. The article on &#8220;Jesus&#8221; in the Encyclopedia of Religion has a good overview of how that question has been &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/10\/12\/who-do-you-think-jesus-was\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Who do you think Jesus was?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29023"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29029,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29023\/revisions\/29029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}