Honest to Jesus   Jesus Seminar

                  by Robert W. Funk
 

"Honest to Jesus" is a powerful, provocative and eminently readable book. Robert Funk will threaten the traditional uncritical believer, but he will excite, encourage, and give hope to countless millions who are drawn to jesus, but who are repelled by the theological structures of the past which have captured Jesus. Perhaps Funk has constructed the bridge over which faith can travel with integrity in its quest ot enter the 21st century.

The Rt. Rev. John Shelby Spong author of " Liberating the Gospels"

                   "I am inclined to the view that Jesus caught a glimpse of what the world is  really like when you look at it with Gods eyes. He endeavored to pass that  glimpse along in short stories we call parables and in subversive proverbs we  call aphorisms. But he did not spell out what he meant. I have a glimpse of  the real Jesus stealing a peek at Gods domain.  My glimpse is informed by,  but bypasses, the Jesus of the Gospels the Christ superimposed by the evangelists on their own glimpse of the real Jesus... I am convinced that the New Testament conceals the real Jesus as frequently as it reveals  him."-from the Introduction

                   In Honest to Jesus, Robert Funk, one of the preeminent biblical scholars of our time, embarks on a radical investigation into the transformation of Jesus,  the social rebel and iconoclast, into Jesus, the religious icon. Founder of the Jesus Seminar the group of writers, philosophers, and theologians spearheading new research into the historical Jesus and the authenticity of the gospels -- Funk has never before articulated his own bold and fearless  vision of who Jesus truly was and how his legacy should be approached by  the modern world.

                   In brilliant detective work, Funk dismantles the ancient gospels in his search  for the true voice of Jesus -- the coiner of sayings, the teller of tales and aphorisms, and the performer of symbolic acts. And Funk finds in the  gospels a Jesus whose troubling and even subversive vision of Gods domain on earth led him to Jerusalem, to persecution, and finally to execution as a common criminal.

                   Funk's investigation concludes with an explosive call to arms. In twenty-one  theses, Funk articulates a revolutionary new vision of Jesus and Christianity for the next millennium. Freed from religious and political propaganda,  liberated from the cobwebs of orthodoxy, this is a Jesus restored to the roles of social critic, dissident and sage. Funk envisions a revitalized Christianity   shaped by history rather than orthodoxy and based not on the Christ of the  creeds but on the teachings of Jesus in all their original power. Forthright, penetrating, and as radical as the mysterious figure it investigates, Honest to  Jesus is a new classic in the debate over the search for the real Jesus and  its implications for modern Christianity.
 

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