Book Synopsis
A couple of decades after the Crucifixion a Christology developed based upon the death of Jesus. It portrayed him as a divine, cosmic visitor who appeared in the Galilee disguised as a Jewish carpenter, performed some miracles, died on a cross for lost sinners, arose alive from a Judean tomb and miraculously ascended to Heaven. Thus Jesus the man became the Christ of Faith.
This book gives the reader a choice: either to stay with the Christology based upon the death of Jesus or to peer behind ecclesiastical curtains and see what sociology and history have learned about early first-century Galilee and Judea, about the world of Jesus and what he faced every day of his life.