Rediscovering Jesus: An Introduction to Biblical, Religious and Cultural Perspectives on Christ Hardcover – August 8, 2015 by David B. Capes (Author), Rodney Reeves (Author), E. Randolph Richards (Author) (IVP Academic)

In the first section of the book, the three Bible-professor authors show the New Testament has eight distinctive portraits of Jesus as painted by a variety of first century writers. This enables the reader to see the individual perspectives of the author of each Gospel as well as that of St. Paul, those who wrote other epistles, and the author of Revelation. In the familiar analogy of several witnesses to an accident or other public event, we can see different understandings of Jesus as each reporter tells things a bit differently from the others. Each chapter includes a section that asks how we would think of Jesus if this one writing were the only interpretation we had of Him. The second section follows a similar pattern with six post-biblical pictures of Jesus: Gnostics in the early Christian centuries who saw Jesus either as not truly man or not truly God; Muslim, Mormons, Enlightenment scholars who seek the historical Jesus outside the pages of the Bible; the Jesus of movies, and the All-American Jesus. The writers of this book combine scholarship and wit in their high view of the inspiration of the Jewish and Christian Scriptures. Though written to answer questions their college students asked, thoughtful non-collegians can also read it with benefit.