"What if everything the Gospels say
about Jesus... his words, his deeds, his plans... actually turn out to
be... true?" In this exhaustively researched new life of
Jesus, award-winning writer Robert J. Hutchinson argues that Jesus was
not an "apocalyptic prophet" who thought the world was about to end.
Jesus was not a "zealot" revolutionary who wanted to kill the Romans.
Jesus was not a Greek Cynic philosopher. Jesus was not an orthodox rabbi
who accidentally got himself killed by causing a disturbance in the
Temple. Jesus was not a world-hating Gnostic. Jesus was not a delusional
fanatic who tricked his followers into following him.
Instead, the author says, recent research suggests that Jesus was just as the Gospels describe him: a fiery, courageous,
charismatic populist who drew crowds by the tens of thousands and
electrified all of Palestine with his strange and exhilarating
announcement of God's kingdom in their midst. Jesus reached out to the
most wretched and despised people in society -- the demon-possessed, the
deformed, those afflicted with horrible contagious diseases,
prostitutes, even soldiers of an occupation army. Hutchinson shows that
many of the negative ideas about Jesus paraded in the media every
Christmas and Easter are increasingly obsolete. These obsolete
portraits of Jesus, the author says, are based on assumptions, theories
and unproven hypotheses that are more than a century old and that have
been discredited by more recent research.
Written for skeptics and believers alike, Searching for Jesus
reveals how the Gospels are truer than many people have been led to
believe -- and Jesus of Nazareth, far from being less than is described in the Gospels, is actually much bigger... and far more interesting.
about Jesus... his words, his deeds, his plans... actually turn out to
be... true?" In this exhaustively researched new life of
Jesus, award-winning writer Robert J. Hutchinson argues that Jesus was
not an "apocalyptic prophet" who thought the world was about to end.
Jesus was not a "zealot" revolutionary who wanted to kill the Romans.
Jesus was not a Greek Cynic philosopher. Jesus was not an orthodox rabbi
who accidentally got himself killed by causing a disturbance in the
Temple. Jesus was not a world-hating Gnostic. Jesus was not a delusional
fanatic who tricked his followers into following him.
Instead, the author says, recent research suggests that Jesus was just as the Gospels describe him: a fiery, courageous,
charismatic populist who drew crowds by the tens of thousands and
electrified all of Palestine with his strange and exhilarating
announcement of God's kingdom in their midst. Jesus reached out to the
most wretched and despised people in society -- the demon-possessed, the
deformed, those afflicted with horrible contagious diseases,
prostitutes, even soldiers of an occupation army. Hutchinson shows that
many of the negative ideas about Jesus paraded in the media every
Christmas and Easter are increasingly obsolete. These obsolete
portraits of Jesus, the author says, are based on assumptions, theories
and unproven hypotheses that are more than a century old and that have
been discredited by more recent research.
Written for skeptics and believers alike, Searching for Jesus
reveals how the Gospels are truer than many people have been led to
believe -- and Jesus of Nazareth, far from being less than is described in the Gospels, is actually much bigger... and far more interesting.
