Jesus of History, Christ of Faith

Rating:
Summary: incredibly horrible
Review: I go to a Catholic high school and am in the tenth grade. I must say that this book fails utterly in what it is striving to do, to give teenagers an interesting base for their faith in Jesus. I think that it would be so much better if we just studied straight out of the bible. Right now I am studying for a midterm in Religion based on this text book. It is so disillusioning what people do with Chrisianity. They focus so much on the religion part that they forget the true meaning of faith in Christ. I have read the whole bible through a number of times, in addition to devouring any book I can get my hands on. This is not good material.

Rating:
Summary: "The decition is yours"
Review: The invitation and the challenge to come to your own recognition of Jesus-offered to you by the larger community and in this course - is an intensely personal one. The intent of this invitation is not to compel you to accept faith in Jesus. What can and must be asked of you, however, is that you take the person and message of Jesus seriously and recognize the questions he posed about the meaning of life as central to your own struggle to be come a mature person. What you ultimately decide about him is for you to determine with honesty, openness, and integrity. That you must decide is a reality that can be postponed but not permanently avoided. This is a paragraph from page 279. This refers to the paperback edition.

Rating:
Summary: Not Interesting
Review: This book strives to make a young person interested in their faith. However it is completely saturated with higher criticism. It does not strengthen a persons faith but rather it brings doubts. Infact throughout the entire book they seem to remind you that our faith is based on nothing but a book, a book that may be fatally flawed.

Of course if you like that stuff this is the book for you!