THE CASE FOR THE REAL JESUS
By Lee Strobel
Zondervan. 312 pages. £12.99
ISBN 978-0-310-24210-9
Lee Strobel was formerly an award-winning journalist with The Chicago Tribune, but since turning to Christ in 1981 he has produced a number of books on crucial issues relating to the Christian faith. This book, The Case for the Real Jesus, is the latest in a series all with titles beginning The Case for…
In recent years there have been a number of new attacks on the orthodox view of the person of Jesus Christ. Perhaps the most well known would be that promulgated by Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code which denied the deity of Christ and proposed that the view of Jesus given by the Gnostic Gospels (Thomas, etc.) was much nearer the truth than the description given in the New Testament.
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