The Case for the Real Jesus: A Journalist Investigates Current Attacks on the Identity of Christ (Case for ... Series) - Softcover

Strobel, Lee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 031033926X ISBN 13: 9780310339267

Publisher: Zondervan, 2014

Synopsis

What IS the truth about Jesus?

Today, the traditional picture of Jesus is under an intellectual onslaught from critical scholars, popular historians, TV documentaries, Hollywood movies, bestselling authors, Internet bloggers, and atheist think tanks. They're capturing the public's imagination with a radical new portrait of Jesus that bears scant resemblance to the picture historically embraced by the church.

How persuasive is this new image of Jesus? Is it based on well-supported facts and arguments? Or does it fade away when exposed to the hot light of
scrutiny?

In this dramatic investigation, award-winning writer and former legal editor
Lee Strobel explores such controversial questions as:

• Did Christianity suppress "alternative gospels" that portray Jesus more
  accurately than the New Testament?
• Did the church distort the truth about Jesus by tampering with early
  biblical texts?
• Have fresh insights and explanations finally disproved the resurrection?
• Were the essential beliefs about Jesus stolen from earlier mythology?
• Have new objections disqualified Jesus from being the Messiah?

Evaluate the evidence for yourself as leading experts grapple with the latest objections from today's foremost critics. Then reach your own verdict in The Case for the Real Jesus.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Has modern scholarship debunked the traditional Christ? Has the church suppressed the truth about Jesus to advance its own agenda? What if the real Jesus is far different from the atoning Savior worshipped through the centuries? In The Case for the Real Jesus, former award-winning legal editor Lee Strobel explores such hot-button questions as:• Did the church suppress ancient non-biblical documents that paint a more accurate picture of Jesus than the four Gospels?• Did the church distort the truth about Jesus by tampering with early New Testament texts?• Do new insights and explanations finally disprove the resurrection?• Have fresh arguments disqualified Jesus from being the Messiah?• Did Christianity steal its core ideas from earlier mythology?Evaluate the arguments and evidence being advanced by prominent atheists, liberal theologians, Muslim scholars, and others. Sift through expert testimony. Then reach your own verdict in The Case for the Real Jesus.

About the Author:

Lee Strobel was the award-winning legal editor of The Chicago Tribune and is the bestselling author of The Case for Christ, The Case for Faith, The Case for a Creator, and The Case for Grace. With a journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a Master of Studies in Law degree from Yale, Lee has won four Gold Medallions for publishing excellence and coauthored the Christian Book of the Year. He serves as Professor of Christian Thought at Houston Baptist University. Visit Lee's website at: leestrobel.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Zondervan
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 031033926X
• ISBN 13: 9780310339267
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336