Traditional Christians accept the gospel accounts of Christ without question; Christian critics generally reject all of the miraculous elements of the gospels. This book offers a proposed alternative that accepts the accuracy of the gospel accounts while postulating possible alternative understandings of the miraculous elements. The result is a "new" biography of The Life of Christ that removes the necessity of wholesale acceptance of miracles (such as the Virgin Birth, the Star of Bethlehem, and so forth) while still adhering strictly to the gospel narratives. This is the first of 4 books...