George Aichele

The Actual Jesus

“There is no one better suited to write this book than Professor Tina Pippin. Tina combines the scholarly rigor and insight, the empathy and imagination, and the wit and humor that are required to appreciate the actual Jesus, and she does this brilliantly. This book should be required reading for college courses, study groups of all sorts, and anyone interested in the questions that are Jesus. The actual Jesus is not the assembled fiction of modernist historical biblical scholarship, nor is he (or she) the eternal divine Word of Christian theologians. The actual Jesus is ‘a manifestation of many imaginations,’ a plurality of Jesus Christs, endlessly resurrected into human lives.”