Tom Holland has spent years showing how Christianity shaped the West — but last week at All Souls Langham Place, he turned to the harder question: what can we really know about Jesus himself?

Host Justin Brierley was joined by Dr Peter Williams, principal of Tyndale House, Cambridge. Yet perhaps like most people in the packed room, I was there not so much for Williams but rather his interlocutor: the popular agnostic historian, Tom Holland.

The Rest is History podcast host has often found himself getting invited to Church since he wrote Dominion, a book arguing that Christianity is deeply embedded in the fabric of the West’s moral imagination. Yet in that book, as he confessed last night, he was nervous to broach the subject of the historical Jesus. I was eager, then, to finally hear what Holland made of Jesus, and where he might differ from… (Register to read the rest of the article)