Jesus: A Profile

ISBN: 0820319708

Author: Watson, Alan

Condition: New

Alan Watson argues that a close examination of the Gospels in their historic and religious context reveals St. Marks text as the most plausible account of how Jesus saw himself and how he was perceived by his contemporaries. In the gospel of Mark, Watson says that we see a Jesus who felt he was beyond the lawa man who was basically apolitical, hostile to dogma, and deliberately incomprehensible to his followers and enemies. Watson concludes that Jesus was essentially a cult leadera charismatic individual who demanded personal faith from his followers with little regard to consistency or content of his message. Jesus: A Profile joins three other works by WatsonThe Trial of Jesus, Jesus and the Law, and Jesus and the Jewsto examine the early dynamism of western religion through refocused attention on biblical texts and other historical sources.