John Dominic Crossan - Theological Books on Christianity and Western Religious History

The First Paul
Reclaiming the Radical Visionary Behind the Church’s Conservative Icon
by Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan

On Sale 3/3/2009

In this revolutionary follow-up to The Last Week and The First Christmas, Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan once again use the best of biblical and historical scholarship to expose the church’s conspiracy to silence Jesus’s most faithful disciple, the apostle Paul.. More...

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The First Christmas What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Birth.		God and Empire Jesus Against Rome, Then and Now.

The Last Week A Day-by-Day Account of Jesus’s Final Week in Jerusalem.		In Search of Paul How Jesus's Apostle Opposed Rome's Empire with God's Kingdom.

A Long Way From Tipperary What a former monk discovered in his search for the truth.		Excavating Jesus Beneath the Stones, Behind the Texts. Revised and updated.

The Birth of Christianity Discovering what happened in the years immediately after the execution of Jesus.		Who Killed Jesus? Exposing the roots of anti-Semitism in the gospel story of the death of Jesus.

Jesus A Revolutionary Biography.		The Historical Jesus The life of a Mediterranean Jewish peasant.