Garry Wills on Jesus

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The conflation of the religious and the political has become so common that we almost take it for granted. We often measure religion’s strength with the standards of political power, and have come to accept the way politicians of all stripes wield religion like a fiery sword. But when was the last time we actually talked about God? Or talked about faith separate from politics, or of the institutions that shepherd us through religious practice?

In time for Easter (the celebration of the resurrection) Garry Wills has his own mediation on faith, and specifically, on Jesus. Not the historical figure – a contradiction in terms, Wills says, an impossibility (for without the faith, and the resurrection, would we care about any supposed historical figure?) But the “divine mystery walking among men.”