A Journalist Investigates Cuttent Attacks on the Identity of Christ

Paperback: 311 pages
Publisher: Zondervan (2007)
Language: English
ISBN: 978-0-310-24061-7
Product Dimensions: 8.0 x 5.25 x 0.75 inches

Lee Strobel, with a journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a Master of Studies in Law degree from Yale Law School, was the award-winning legal editor of the Chicago Tribune and a spiritual skeptic until 1981. His wife became a Christian and Lee was antagonistic to her beliefs.

But deciding to be fair and objective, as much as he could from his bias towards atheism, he decided to sift through and weigh up the evidence for the Christian claims about Jesus. After all, a fair trial of the available evidence was a sound legal move and one by which he, as a legal journalist, should surely grant the claims made concerning the one called Christ. Setting out to interview the most highly regarded scholars of Christianity, he was staggered by what he discovered.

As a result, given the veracity of the evidence, he too became a Christian. Lee has since published the results of those interviews so that others may also consider the evidence, and in their role as jurors of one, decide the outcome of the “Case” he presents.

This latest “Case” book considers further the truth about Jesus. From the back cover of this book comes the following summary:

Today, the traditional picture of Jesus is under intellectual onslaught from critical scholare, popular historians, TV documentaries, Hollywood movies, bestselling authors, Internet bloggers, Muslim debaters, and aetheist think tanks. They’re capturing the public’s imagination with a radical new portrait of Jesus that bears scant resemblance to the picture historically embraced by the church.

How persuasive is this new image of jesus? Is it based on well-supported facts and arguments - or does it fade away when exposed to the hot light of scrutiny?

In this dramatic investigation, award-winning writer and former legal editor Lee Strobel explores such controversial questions as:

* Did Christianity suppress “alternative gospels” that portray Jesus more accurately than the New Testament?
* Did the church distort the truth about Jesus by tampering with the early Biblical texts?
* Have fresh insights and explanations finally disproved the resurrection?
* Were the essential beliefs about Jesus stolen from earlier mythology?
* Have new objections disqualified Jesus from being the Messiah?

Evaluate the evidence for yourself as leading experts grapple with the latest objections from today’s foremost critics. Then reach your own verdict in The Case for the Real Jesus.

This book is very timely. Even in Christian circles there is a movement away from the traditional understandings of God, how Scripture should be regarded, and the nature of Jesus. This movement is fuelled by philosophies since the Enlightenment, the liberal theologies derived from them, and heat-set by elements of today’s post-modernism. Liberalism in the mainstream Christian churches is tearing into the Christian faith, modernizing doctrine towards more fashionable cultural trends in the effort to attract more adherents but actually achieving the opposite instead. Unbelief is what this is about. Doubts are raised, and the truth is watered down to make it more acceptable to the modern thinker - except doing so also makes it no longer truth at all.

So… just who exactly is Jesus? Could He really be “God Incarnate”, or is that just a myth disproven by today’s more sophisticated knowledge and sensibilities? If you are to be fair and objective, then give Him a fair trial by examining the evidence for yourself. Lee Strobel brings it to you in all his “Case” books (several of which you will find reviewed right here) and you, the lone juror, must decide one way or the other for yourself.