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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 help the audience understand how there were no Christians in the first two centuries after Jesus. The words “Christian” and Christianity” are lacking from almost all of writings of the first two centuries. The lecture asks what the few Greek and Latin words translated as “Christian” actually mean. Finally—and crucially—what words were used among emerging Jesus communities to identify themselves? Chapter Two of "After Jesus before Christianity" is the primary focus of this lecture. Shirley Paulson and Brandon Scott. Ninety minutes with Q and A