A Credible Jesus
Fragments of a Vision Robert W. Funk  Jesus saw the extraordinary in the ordinary. His extraordinary
vision comes to us in bits and pieces, in random stunning insights, embedded in the everyday language of his parables, aphorisms, and dialogues. In A Credible Jesus, Robert Funk sorts and
assembles these fragments and examines ways in which the vision they preserve can serve twenty-first century people searching for meaning in a very different world than the one
Jesus inhabited. The results are both unsettling and reassuring.
"Bob Funk has spent his life amidst the language of Jesus, his aphorisms and parables, his responses and comments,
his humor and challenge. That language has come down to us as "Fragments of a Vision" but that is more appropriate than unfortunate. For, as this book argues, they envision
God's domain as another world that overturns the normalcy of our everyday one and that we can catch only in glimpses and live only in moments." — John Dominic Crossan |
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Robert W. Funk is founder of The Jesus Seminar and Director of Westar Institute, a nonprofit advocate for religious literacy. A Guggenheim Fellow,
Senior Fulbright Scholar, he is the author of Honest to Jesus (1996) and co-author of the bestselling The Five Gospels: The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus (1993). Retail Price: $18.00 — Become a Westar Institute Member and receive a 20%
discount off the retail price.
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Paperback, 192 pages
2002 ISBN 0-944344-88-7 Copyright |
