Download or read book When History and Faith Collide written by Charles W. Hedrick and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hedrick explores the tension, or collision, that occurs when studying the Jesus of faith with the critical eye of historical scholarship. He outlines the nature of historical inquiry, gives a brief history of how scholars have understood Jesus, and indentifies the essential issues confronting the reader of the New Testament Gospel accounts of Jesus: discrepancies, contradictions, and the differences as well as strong similarities among different writers.