Reinventing Jesus

Reinventing Jesus
Author: J. Ed Komoszewski
Publisher: Kregel Publications
Total Pages: 350
Release:
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0825497566

Reinventing Jesus cuts through the rhetoric of extreme doubt to reveal the profound credibility of historic Christianity. Meticulously researched yet eminently readable, this book invites a wide audience to take a firsthand look at the primary evidence for Christianity's origins.

Putting Jesus in His Place

Putting Jesus in His Place
Author: Robert M. Bowman
Publisher: Kregel Publications
Total Pages: 198
Release:
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0825497450

Putting Jesus in His Place is designed to introduce Christians to the wealth of biblical teaching on the deity of Christ and give them the confidence to share the truth about Jesus with others.

The Resurrection Fantasy

The Resurrection Fantasy
Author: Gerald Sigal
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2012-05-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1469192314

Examine the evidence presented in the New Testament. It shows that the Christian belief in the resurrection of Jesus is not based on historic evidence. The New Testament evidence is contradictory in fundamental issues and events. Its most salient promise -- that of a return by Jesus within the lifetime of his contemporaries never occurred. Christian apologists have spent the last 2000 years devising many different and often contradictory explanations of what they allege the New Testament really means when it promises a quick return by Jesus. They cannot all be right, but they can all be wrong. When all the Christian theological myths are seen for the fantasies they are it comes down to this -- Jesus was never God's son, did not shed his blood on the cross, was not a substitute who took upon himself the punishment for the sins of others, did not die to save sinners and was not resurrected. And he is never coming back.

Reinventing Paul

Reinventing Paul
Author: John G. Gager
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2002
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780195150858

Through an exhaustive analysis of Paul's letters to the Galatians and the Roman, illuminating answers are given to the key questions about the teachings of Paul.

Can We Trust the Gospels?

Can We Trust the Gospels?
Author: Peter J. Williams
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2018-12-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433552981

Is there evidence to believe the Gospels? The Gospels—Matthew, Mark, Luke, John—are four accounts of Jesus’s life and teachings while on earth. But should we accept them as historically accurate? What evidence is there that the recorded events actually happened? Presenting a case for the historical reliability of the Gospels, New Testament scholar Peter Williams examines evidence from non-Christian sources, assesses how accurately the four biblical accounts reflect the cultural context of their day, compares different accounts of the same events, and looks at how these texts were handed down throughout the centuries. Everyone from the skeptic to the scholar will find powerful arguments in favor of trusting the Gospels as trustworthy accounts of Jesus’s earthly life.

The Bad Christian's Manifesto

The Bad Christian's Manifesto
Author: Dave Tomlinson
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-07-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781444752274

Dave Tomlinson's book How to Be a Bad Christian was written for all those who want God without the guff - revealing that being a 'bad' Christian is perfectly good enough, and that it's possible to ditch religion without losing the faith. The Bad Christian's Manifesto continues the conversation, unpacking what spiritual intelligence - from an unapologetically Christian viewpoint - might look like for all the self-confessed bad Christians of the world. Join Dave as he explores how to befriend your inner sceptic, make a virtue of pleasure and find heaven in the ordinary things of life.

The Gospel of Self

The Gospel of Self
Author: Terry Heaton
Publisher: OR Books
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2017-05-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1682190846

Terry Heaton, who worked alongside Robertson at The 700 Club and became its executive producer, provides the inside story of how evangelical Christianity forced itself on a needy Republican Party in order to gain political influence on a global level. Using deliberate and strategic social engineering, The 700 Club moved Christians steadily into the Republican Party–and moved the party itself to the right.

Reinventing American Protestantism

Reinventing American Protestantism
Author: Donald E. Miller
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 263
Release: 1997
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0520218116

Explores the trend in the last thirty years towards new paradigm churches, sometimes called megachurches or postdenominational churches, which are reinventing Christianity by redefining the institutional forms and reconnecting people to the message of first-century Christianity using the media of twentieth century America.

Jesus Under Fire

Jesus Under Fire
Author: Zondervan,
Publisher: Zondervan Academic
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2010-12-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 031087713X

Who is Jesus? What did he do? What did he say? -Are the traditional answer to these questions still to be trusted? - Did the early church and tradition "Christianize" Jesus? - Was Christianity built on clever conceptions of the church, or on the character and actions of an actual person? These and similar questions have come under scrutiny by a forum of biblical scholars called the Jesus Seminar. Their conclusions have been widely publicized in magazines such as Time and Newsweek. Jesus Under Fire challenges the methodology and findings of the Jesus Seminar, which generally clash with the biblical records. It examines the authenticity of the words, actions, miracles, and resurrection of Jesus, and presents compelling evidence for the traditional biblical teachings. Combining accessibility with scholarly depth, Jesus Under Fire helps readers judge for themselves whether the Jesus of the Bible is the Jesus of history, and whether the gospels' claim is valid that he is the only way to God.