Robert W. Funk

Jesus saw the extraordinary in the ordinary. His extraordinary vision comes to us in bits and pieces, in random stunning insights, embedded in the everyday language of his parables, aphorisms, and dialogues. In A Credible Jesus, Robert Funk sorts and assembles these fragments and examines ways in which the vision they preserve can serve twenty-first century people searching for meaning in a very different world than the one Jesus inhabited. The results are both unsettling and reassuring.  

“For readers who attend to the teachings of Jesus, this assembly of short pithy sayings will create a deep impression. Funk has done us a fine service.” —Currents of Theology and Mission

"Bob Funk has spent his life amidst the language of Jesus, his aphorisms and parables, his responses and comments, his humor and challenge. That language has come down to us as "Fragments of a Vision" but that is more appropriate than unfortunate. For, as this book argues, they envision God's domain as another world that overturns the normalcy of our everyday one and that we can catch only in glimpses and live only in moments."— John Dominic Crossan

Funk presents a rich conceptual framework for the fragments of aphorism, parable, and dialogue that represent the historical Jesus. —John Mark Ministries

Funk's essays are brief and plain. It is that which makes them easy to grasp and tantalisingly blurry. A quick read through the book's contents will prove interesting. But reflecting on the substance of the historical Jesus he sketches will prove much more rewarding. —Radical Faith

Polebridge Press
Paperback, 192 pages
2002 ISBN 0-944344-88-7

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