Against the “Jesus” of the Journalists

[Michie]

Readable, with scholarly backing, well-organized, and relatively short, Brant Pitre’s “The Case for Jesus” is a handbook for Christians faced with the academic-journalistic war on Jesus’ lordship at Christmas. It cannot give faith of itself, but it does what the best works of apologetics do: It clears away intellectual objections and provides a balanced and reasonable account of the evidence that Jesus is neither liar, lunatic, nor the subject of tall tales.
The Case for Jesus by Brant Pitre (Image, 242 pages, 2016)

Brace yourselves. Though the Christmas decorations have been up in the stores since October, the fullness of Christmas in an increasingly post-Christian west will not be completed until our newsfeeds are filled with articles purporting to debunk the reason for the season.

You would think that the American media, so angry when called “the enemy of the people,” might think to themselves, “Hey, maybe we don’t have to run an article this year on December 24 telling people that the Gospels weren’t written by the people whose names are on them and Jesus, the son of a Roman soldier who impregnated a young Palestinian girl (#metoo!), never claimed to be God but was really crucified for his dedication to gender nonconformity, BLM, and the separation of plastics and aluminum in the recycling bins.”

You would be wrong. To paraphrase Albert Schweitzer, those in the journalistic quest for the historical Jesus looked down the well of history and saw the reflection of University of North Carolina professor Bart Ehrman and a dropped phone playing weird speculations from the History Channel.

Continued below.

Against the "Jesus" of the Journalists ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Readable, with scholarly backing, well-organized, and relatively short, Brant Pitre's "The Case for Jesus" is a handbook for Christians faced with the academic-journalistic war on Jesus’ lordship at Christmas. It cannot give faith of itself, but it does what the best works of apologetics do: It...

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[SashaMaria]

Brent Pitre’s book The Case for Jesus is an excellent book. It’s a very readable, in-depth book about why we can believe the Gospels, etc., and I recommend it (along with his other books). I’ve never understood why it never got more recognition.