Christ Actually: Jesus in the 21st Century

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Recorded on December 10, 2014

CARROLL1Award-winning author James Carroll discusses his new book, Christ Actually: The Son of God for The Secular Age with Harvey Cox of Harvard Divinity School. 

Carroll asks what can we believe about—and how can we believe in—Jesus in the post-20th century world of wars and Holocaust and the drift from religion that followed?

Answering his own question, Carroll revisits Christ’s crucial identity as a Jew. What can the ordinary humanness of the Christ figure mean to the 21st century?  How can Christ, who is no Christian himself, transcend Christianity to speak to people in today’s world?

Watch James Carroll on YouTube here.