Reinventing Jesus | Scott’s Book Recommendations

For almost 20+ years, our culture has popularized objections against the Bible, from the idea that the New Testament writings were the product of 4th century political battles waged by Emperor Constantine, to the claim that Jesus’ divinity was a belief that Christians developed centuries after Jesus lived and wrote back into the New Testament.

These skeptical challenges have been repeated so often in popular books and media that they’ve taken on the aura of proven fact. This has left some Christians unsure of how to even begin responding, and others unsure that they can really trust the historical and factual reliability of the Bible.

This is what makes Reinventing Jesus such a valuable and faith-building resource for the church. Resting on sound research, Reinventing Jesus brings the field of history and textual criticism into focus for the average Christian who is eager to study. While not for casual readers, the authors do well to offer everyday Christians academically credible access to the wealth of historical and textual scholarship that refutes skeptics’ claims against the New Testament, and they supply Christians with reliable evidence that the New Testament we hold contains the historic beliefs of Jesus’ earliest followers.