![]() ![]() Hutchinson shows that many of the negative ideas about Jesus paraded in the media every Christmas and Easter are increasingly obsolete. 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. Instead, 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 was not a delusional fanatic who tricked his followers into following him. Jesus was not an orthodox rabbi who accidentally got himself killed by causing a disturbance in the Temple. Jesus was not a "zealot" revolutionary who wanted to kill the Romans. Hutchinson argues that Jesus was not an "apocalyptic prophet" who thought the world was about to end. Searching for Jesus: In this exhaustively researched new life of Jesus, award-winning writer Robert J. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |