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 resuslts and 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 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 Robert W. Funk is founder of The Jesus Seminar and Director of the Westar Institute, a nonprofit advocate for religious literacy. A Guggenheim Fellow, Senior Fulbright Scholar, and former chair of the Graduate Department of Religion at Vanderbilt University, he is the author of "Honest to Jesus" (1996) and co-author of the bestselling "The Five Gospels: The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus" (1993). Used Book in Good Condition