The historical Jesus would have strongly disagreed with the new apocalyptic mood of many current writers. In seven vivid New Testament studies, Dr. Jewett demonstrates what Jesus really had to say... This description may be from another edition of this product.
It has been a good while since I have read this book. It is both scholarly (written by a non-fundamentalist New Testament scholar) and entertaining. Jewett shows how the Jesus of the Gospels is not a world-obliterating Apocalyptic figure, but a world restoring Messiah. This is a good place to start if you want to read an author who is "reality oriented" on this topic.
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