Jesus
Uncovering the Life, Teachings, and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary
Chapter OneJesus TodayTelling His Story
We live in a "Christ-haunted" and "Christ-forgetting" culture. So wrote Walker Percy over thirty years ago at the beginning of his novel Love in the Ruins:
Now in these dread latter days of the old violent beloved U.S.A. and of the Christ-forgetting and Christ-haunted death-dealing Western world I came to myself in a grove of young pines [italics added].
The passage strikes a more ominous tone than I intend, but its description of our culture rings true. Even as we forget Jesus in many ways, we remain fascinated by him.
The last few years have witnessed several epiphanies of our fascination. In 2004, Mel Gibson's movie The Passion of the Christ was a major cultural event. Its graphic portrayal of the torture and execution of Jesus generated front-page stories in hundreds of newspapers across the nation, cover features by the three major weekly news magazines, and prime-time specials ... read full excerpt from: Jesus [Borg] ebook
