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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 third volume of Afterlives focuses on perspectives of Jesus in contemporary culture and the arts. Moving beyond the explicitly religious afterlives, this set of essays trace afterlives of Jesus within Indigenous cultures around the Pacific, within the arts, and within the contested fields of gender and sexuality. The contributors are religion scholars from diverse cultural contexts and faith practitioners reflecting on Jesus within their context. The essays are all grounded in critical scholarship but remain accessible to interested nonspecialists.