From the bestselling author of Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: John Shelby Spong''s original groundbreaking classic, now newly revised, reveals the Jesus "behind the language of myth, magic, and superstition."

"In this study I found a Lord, a center for my being. Behind the supernatural framework of the first century . . . I discovered a life I wanted to know; a life that possessed a power I wanted to possess; a freedom, a wholeness for which I had yearned for years."

Illuminating the "figure who stands at the center of all the Christina Church is," John Shelby Spong explores Jesus under the light of the Hebrew tradition into which he was born. Candid, personal, and soundly argued, this is Spong''s spiritual and intellectual pilgrimage to the Christ he discovered in Jesus of Nazareth.