The Divine Goodness of Jesus: Impact and Response

Description

In this book, Paul Moser explores Jesus' role as God's filial inquirer and clarifies a method of inquiry regarding Jesus, one that offers a compelling explanation regarding his experiential impact and his audience's response. Moser's method values the roles of history and moral/religious experience in inquiry about him, and it saves inquirers from distorting biases in their inquiry. His study illuminates Jesus' puzzling features, including his challenging question for inquirers of him (Who do you say I am?), his distinctive experience of God as father, his reference to himself as 'the son of man', his attitude toward his suffering and death, his unique role in the kingdom of God, and his understanding of his allegedly miraculous signs and of his parables and good news. The book also makes sense of evidence for the reality and the main purpose of Jesus.

Paul Moser is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author and editor of numerous books, most recently The Cambridge Companion to the Problem of Evil, The God Relationship, and Understanding Religious Experience.

'With this welcome contribution to the literature on the method and message of Jesus, Moser fills a lacuna-the impact of Christ and the moral response required. Recommended.' W. J. Pankey, Choice Connect