The Innocence of Pontius Pilate: How the Roman Trial of Jesus Shaped History

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David Lloyd Dusenbury reveals Pilate’s ‘innocence’ as not only a neglected theological question, but a recurring theme in the history of European political thought. He argues that Jesus’ interrogation by Pilate, and Augustine of Hippo’s North African sermon on that trial, led to the concept of secularity and the logic of tolerance emerging in early modern Europe.

Without the Roman trial of Jesus, and the arguments over Pilate’s innocence, the history of empire–from the first century to the twenty-first–would have been radically different.

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