Jesus For a New Millennium
Robert Fund, one of the preeminent biblical scholars, embarks on a radical investigation into the transformation of Jesus the social rebel and iconoclast into Jesus the religious icon. He traces how the early Church turned the historical Jesus into Christ the cult figure. Like a detective, Funk reaches through the haze of translation, limited sources, and the overlay of Christian propaganda to recover the flesh-and-blood Jesus, reconstructing the religion of Jesus as distinguished from the religion about Jesus. Funk says, "I am convinced that the New Testament conceals the real Jesus as frequently as it reveals him."
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 the implications of that for modern Christianity.
