I picked it up because I listened to an interview with the Greg Boyd a little while ago, where he talked about the book and some of the ideas behind it. If you have a spare moment, definitely listen to the interview, because there were some amazing insights there - about church and Christian culture and what the way of Jesus might look like in our world today. If you do listen to it, make sure you let me know any thoughts, or if anything stood out to you.
Here's a little from the introduction to the book....
"This may surprise or even offend you, but Jesus is not the founder of the Christian religion. True, a religion arose centuries after he lived that was called 'Christian,' but... in many respects this religion was antithetical to what Jesus was about. In fact... the very concept of a 'Christian religion' is something of a myth when understood in the light of what Jesus was about."
Send me your thoughts on that one too!
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