Roger Lee Ray

Big Jesus

Theology

“Imagine that you are sitting in a rural Texas truck-stop diner overhearing a couple of guys at the next table talking about Jesus in the colorfully ribald and iconoclastic language of dismissive humor, and down home, mesquite grilled, thick steak, pickup truck driving, frankness. Now imagine that the two guys at the next table are Paul Tillich and Rudolph Bultmann. That's the sort of informed but accessible conversation Jimmy Watson has published in this nakedly honest work about the Jesus that can survive the critical thinking of the modern era . . . the only Jesus that's really worth talking about.”