Reclaiming Jesus – Making sense of the man without the miracles - Softcover

This book is both rational and sympathetic, a book which questions hand-me-downs but is open-minded about new answers. His thought is wide ranging and the expression of it clear and persuasive. --(Dorin Barter, author of Grace Abounding)

What he has to say and the manner in which he says it will have considerable appeal to many readers who urgently seek to find meaning in an increasingly uncertain world. --(Brian Thorne, Emeritus Professor at University of East Anglia Norwich writer on counselling and on religious themes)

The figure of Jesus many people have today is perfectly unreal half man half god unsmiling apparently in love with death. Can we do better than this sad caricature? Reclaiming Jesus digs through the evidence and comes up with a few surprises and reveals a Jesus most of us haven't met before. We notice his mischievous style with people and his love of the comic and the contradictory. We see him as a youth in the desert struggling to contain his tumult of ideas. We wonder about an unspoken grief in early years. Later in the book discover how he turns traditional ideas inside out seeing human nature within a wholly new reality. We examine what others made of him and trace the story forward to where we are today. Finally we wonder what this extraordinary teaching about a source of strength within us can tell us as our species faces up to the daunting challenges of our own time