Abstract
Abstract Jesus, Jesus of Nazareth: I can't remember him. Pontius Pilate, in retirement, talks over the old days in Jerusalem; the name of a crucified miracle-worker, Jesus of Nazareth, comes up; it eludes him. The story was published by Anatole France in an anticlerical newspaper on Christmas Day 189 I, to alarm pious ladies and enrage the cures. Yet this tale for agnostics has a double edge. A spark had been ignited which was to bum on through the centuries long after Rome had fallen, but the intellectuals and rulers of the empire had been blind to the significance of the newly kindled flame. Despairing as he did of human intelligence and foresight, France was ironically conceding a point to the providentialist religious apologetics of his day. Christianity had won against all the odds: it was an astonishing success story.
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