Douglas Casson

Displacing Jesus

“Displacing Jesus is a remarkable book that calls readers to take seriously ‘Jefferson’s Bible,’ an edited version of the Gospels that scholars have often cited only selectively. By showing in detail how Thomas Jefferson crafted a Jesus detached from context, emerging out of nowhere to initiate global moral reform, Charles Wilson sheds new light on Jefferson’s faith and the very American tradition of enlisting Jesus to serve our own purposes.”