Jesus Against Christianity: Reclaiming the Missing Jesus [Paperback]

 The audacious character of Nelson-Pallmeyer's book is his willingness to probe troublesome aspects of the faith and the Christian tradition, which too infrequently get a public hearing. He is engaging and provocative in his treatment of his subject...His commitment to nonviolence is uncompromising and unwavering. What is finally important, however, is not so much whether one agrees with any or all that he says but whether one is willing to engage the questions with him. To do so will be both disturbing and stimulating, but finally rewarding. --Randy A. Nelson,Director of Contextual Education at Luther Seminary, Saint Paul, MN. Review for RE-Imaging November 2001 Randy A. Nelson,Blurb from reviewer

 Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer joins a distinguished company of writers who, as an act of faithfulness, are attempting to reinvent Christianity. None of them, however, makes a more trenchant case for the ways Christianity has twisted Jesus' God of Compassion into a God of Violence than Nelson-Pallmeyer. Jesus Against Christianity attempts to recover Jesus at the heart of a Christianity transformed. -- Walter Wink, author of The Human Being: Jesus and the Enigma of the Son of the Man . Walter Wink,Blurb from reviewer

 The missing Jesus has been missing since the early followers discovered they could not weave a big and lasting movement by following him closely. Enter councils and creeds. Things to believe, memorize and recite. A passive gospel. Exit the Jesus who had neither doctrine not set goals, save a striving for justice. Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer has written a powerful and important book. Those whose playhouse is threatened will turn away. Others will exult to read what they had suspected all along but were afraid to bring into shal/