Jesus

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Reappraises the readings of familiar accounts of Jesus' life in the Gospels, and reinterprets the story of Jesus' birth, his life as a carpenter and the dramatic events surrounding his arrest and trial. Wilson has also written "Tolstoy" and won the Whitbread Prize for his biography "C.S. Lewis".
From the Back Cover
The Jesus of Faith and the Jesus of History are two different beings, with two different stories. In this brilliant and bestselling biography, A.N. Wilson reappraises our readings of the Gospels and, with extraordinary insight and clarity, reinterprets the story of Jesus’s birth, his life as a carpenter and the dramatic events surrounding his arrest and trial.
Written with profound scepticism, A.N. Wilson’s book triumphantly rescues Jesus from the tangles of Christian history, presenting us with a compelling portrait of the man behind the myth.
“A masterly work of demystifying iconoclasm.”PATRICK SKENE CATLING, 'Spectator'
“Those exceptional talents displayed in his biographies are combined with those equally splendid gifts of imaginative writing which characterize his novels.”HUGH MONTEFIORE, 'Literary Review'
“Many aspects of Wilson’s book will anger or amuse believing Christians and serious New Testament scholars … Anybody who knows the Gospels at all should find their understanding much challenged and enriched by this book.”JENNY TURNER, 'Guardian'
“He writes beautifully … I found myself carried along on page after page.”BISHOP OF PETERBOROUGH, 'Mail on Sunday'
“A.N. Wilson’s 'Jesus' is a very good book indeed … His novelist’s instinct is alert to the little details which bring Jesus to life … [it is] an excellent read and sends you scurrying back to the Gospels.”GREY GOWRIE, 'Daily Telegraph'
“A very profound and subtle examination of the religious imagination.”ANDREW BROWN, 'Independent'