Dethroning Jesus : Exposing popular culture's quest to unseat the biblical Christ /

Darrell Bock teams with Daniel Wallace to help lay readers separate fact from fiction and help from hype in the recent best-selling Jesus books and television specials. There is a quest going on. It's the quest to reduce Jesus to a mythic legend or to nothing more than a mere man. Scholars such... Full description

Main Author:	Bock, Darrell L.
Other Authors:	Wallace, Daniel B.
Published:	Nashville, Tennessee : Thomas Nelson Inc., 2007
Subjects:	JESUS CHRIST. JESUS CHRIST - HISTORICITY.
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Table of Contents:

Contents : Introduction: A Tale of Two Jesus Stories : Christianity versus Jesusanity 1. Claim 1: The Original New Testament Has Been Corrupted by Copyists So Badly That It Can't Be Recovered
2. Claim 2: Those Secret Gnostic Gospels Such as Judas Show the Existence of Early Alternative Christianities
3. Claim 3: The Gospel of Thomas Radically Alters Our Understanding of the Real Jesus
4. Claim 4: Jesus's Message Was Fundamentally Political and Social
5. Claim 5: Paul Took Captive the Original Movement of Jesus and James, Moving It from a Jewish Reform Effort to a Movement That Exalted Jesus and Included Gentiles
6. Claim 6: Jesus's Tomb Has Been Found and His Resurrection and Ascension Did Not Involve a Physical Departure
Conclusion: A Look at Some Popular Claims about Jesus. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-237)

Dethroning Jesus : Exposing popular culture's quest to unseat the biblical Christ /

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