The Book of Jesus

` Historically, the world has voted: there was a Jesus. Christians themselves take the issue of believing a good deal further.They are interested only in the Christ who is.' This remarkable selection of writings richly demonstrates the different ways that the Christ of history and faith has impacted people's lives throughout the ages. As well as drawing on biblical material and traditional hymnology, this all-embracing anthology brings together stories, poems, essays and songs from a wide variety of contributors: medieval saints and Reformers; novelists, historians and statesmen; philosophers, poets and prophets; great Christian thinkers like C.S. Lewis and John Stott, and contemporary authors like Richard Foster and Eugene Peterson. Their fascinating and original perspectives will challenge our own highly individualistic images of Jesus. As Calvin Miller reminds us, `we are ever having to blend the Christ of unstudied adoration with the one whom only critical scholarship can inform us about.' A superb anthology celebrating ` the Christ of universal reflection' which no thinking person, whether they are a professing Christian or not, should be without.