Jesus of Nazareth is a perennial subject of interest and one of the most influential people
that ever lived. The religious movement which flowed from him produced the Christian Church in
all its various manifestations. Christian believers have in common a regard for Jesus as Lord
and God in some way a bodily appearance revealing the Father of the universe. Christian
thinkers down the centuries have continually tried to define and explain who Jesus was and is.
This book draws together some of the best modern thinking about the biblical evidence the
beliefs of the first few centuries when orthodoxy was being defined the past two centuries
when churchmen have responded to the challenge of modern rationalism and some of the reactions
to Jesus in the world-wide spread of modern Christianity and in Islam. It concludes with an
attempt at a simple formula which might provoke and sustain faith in Jesus Christ in the most
recent intellectual environment.
