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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 second volume of Afterlives focuses on diverse interfaith perspective on Jesus. Moving beyond the explicitly Christian afterlives traced in volume one, this set of essays explores how Jesus has significance in Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Ruism, and Mormonism. There is some attention paid to the secular Jesus in progressive Christianity. The contributors are composed of both scholars and faith practitioners reflecting on Jesus within their own religious context. The essays are academically responsible but expressed in language accessible to nonspecialists.