13 APRIL 1996, Page 26

Sir: It was a delight to read E.P. Sanders's lucid

essay and to find at last mature, unprejudiced thinking on Christianity pre- sented to the general reader, as opposed to the usual extremes of naïve literalism from fundamentalists or naive literary cynicism from such as A.N. Wilson. Congratulations to The Spectator on resurrecting the Resur- rection!

Dr Christopher H. Maycock

The Court, Neopardy, Crediton, Devon