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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.

Who was John the Baptist? What was his relationship to Jesus? What message did John proclaim? Did Jesus repeat John's message or did he devise one of his own? For answers to these questions, the Jesus Seminar considered all the historical evidence found in the gospels, Josephus, the documents known as the Pseudo-Clementines, and the traces of the Baptist tradition preserved in Mandaeism, a baptizing sect that continues to exist in southern Iraq and neighboring Iran. Their conclusions, a summary of the deliberations and votes of the Seminar, and a concise sketch of the historical figure of John the Baptist are found in the pages of this provocative and lucid book.