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This collection of essays by Robert Funk delves into the contributions of notable artists and intellectuals, including Kafka, Beckett, Henry Miller, Castaneda, Fowles, and Thoreau, to illuminate the true successors of Jesus. In the section titled 'Voices of Silence,' Funk examines the interplay between language and contemporary reality. He ultimately addresses the pivotal theological question of whether individuals can identify a genuine world to which they can fully commit, offering twenty-one propositions on theology in response.

This lecture presents the fact that there was no New Testament in the first two hundred years of Jesus movements. Instead, communities were were deeply imbedded in oral culture. Anointed clubs, Wisdom circles, and Jesus groups were not book-oriented. They relied on memorials, songs, bathing practices, and meals to enliven discussion. Join Westar scholars Deborah Saxon and Steve Patterson for this lecture based on "After Jesus Before Christianity," specifically chapter nineteen. Ninety minutes with Q and A