When in Rome: A Journal of Life in the Vatican City

Robert J. Hutchinson

Religion & Spirituality

Harpercollins

What Really Happened: The Lincoln Assassination (The What Really Happened Series) (What Really Happened Series, 1)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Blackstone Publishing

What if everything the Gospels say about Jesus of Nazareth--his words, his deeds, his plans--actually turned out to be... true?  For more than a century, Bible scholars and university researchers have been systematically debunking what ordinary Christians believed about Jesus Christ.  But what if the most recent Biblical scholarship actually affirmed the New Testament?  What if Jesus was not a Zealot revolutionary, or a Greek Cynic philosopher, or a proto-feminist Gnostic, but precisely what he claimed to be: the divine Son of Man prophesied in the Book of Daniel who gave his life as a ransom for many? Searching for Jesus changes "what if?" to "what is," debunking the debunkers and showing how the latest scholarship supports orthodox Christian belief about Jesus Christ. In a provocative new life of Jesus that challenges two centuries' worth of skeptical New Testament scholarship, award-winning writer Robert J. Hutchinson argues that the historical Jesus was just as the Gospels describe him.  Jesus was  a fiery, courageous, charismatic populist who drew crowds by the tens of thousands and electrified all of Palestine with his strange and exhilarating announcement of God's kingdom in their midst.  Jesus reached out to the most wretched and despised people in society -- the demon-possessed, the deformed, those afflicted with horrible contagious diseases, prostitutes, even soldiers of an occupation army. Hutchinson shows that many of the negative ideas about Jesus Christ paraded in the media every Christmas and Easter are increasingly obsolete.  In this exhaustively researched new biography of Jesus, Hutchinson argues that... Jesus was NOT an "apocalyptic prophet" who thought the world was about to end. Jesus was NOT a "zealot" revolutionary who wanted to kill the Romans. Jesus was NOT a Greek Cynic philosopher. Jesus was NOT an orthodox rabbi who accidentally got himself killed by causing a disturbance in the Temple. Jesus was NOT a world-hating Gnostic. Jesus was NOT a delusional fanatic who tricked his followers into following him. These portraits of Jesus, the author says, are based on assumptions, theories and unproven hypotheses that are more than a century old and that have been discredited by more recent research. Written for skeptics and believers alike, Searching for Jesus reveals how the Gospels are truer than many people have been led to believe.  Jesus Christ, far from being an "illiterate peasant," was a trained rabbi on a mission to save humanity from itself.  Among the recent developments discussed in this book are:  * the 2012 announcement of the discovery of seven previously unknown New Testament papyri about Jesus -- one of which, from the Gospel of Mark, that may date to the first century; * the 2009 discovery of a first-century stone house in Nazareth that refutes one of the key arguments used by those who say Jesus never existed;  * a young secular scholar in the UK who recently argued that the Gospel of Mark was written not forty or fifty years after Jesus' death, as many scholars have claimed for at least a century, but more like five or ten; * recent excavations in Israel that have uncovered archaeological proof of the existence of key figures mentioned in the New Testament, including the high priest Caiaphas and possibly James the Just; * new research that suggests belief in Jesus as a divine savior arose very early, within a year or two of the Crucifixion, not fifty to one hundred years as academic researchers used to claim in the twentieth century; and * the recently discovered Hebrew-language tablet dating back to the early first century that speaks about a messiah who would suffer, die, and perhaps rise again in three days;  In the end, these new discoveries are causing some experts to wonder if the life of Jesus described in the gospels is far more plausible than the elaborate reconstructions created by academic skeptics over the past 150 years.

Searching for Jesus

Thomas Nelson on Brilliance Audio

Nao vos amedronteis: o premiadissimo jornalista especializado em religiao Robert J. Hutchinson revela agora a verdade sobre a Biblia bem como sobre os estudos biblicos mais modernos , contrariando os impios e os charlatoes. Ganhador de oito premios jornalisticos da Associated Church Press, o autor demonstra, por meio de evidencias arqueologicas e historicas, que nao so a Biblia e verdadeira, como tambem e a fonte das ideias de caridade, justica, razao, ciencia e democracia que marcam o cenario ocidental. Hutchinson leva o leitor em uma rapida e politicamente incorreta viagem pela palavra sagrada. Envolvente e revelador, este livro fara os ateus estremecerem, mas ira acalmar os coracoes daqueles que sao assolados por duvidas e questionamentos, alem de estabelecer uma forte linha de defesa para os conservadores que procuram as armas corretas contra os ataques mundanos. Uma historia politicamente incorreta da Biblia traz, de uma vez por todas, a verdade crua sobre o livro sagrado.

Uma Historia Politicamente Incorreta da Biblia (Em Portugues do Brasil)

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