"The goal of this book", Brooks writes, "is to build confidence in the reader that Jesus Christ was not only a real person but that He was the promised Messiah (Savior) and the Son of God". To achieve that goal, though, requires Brooks to look at far more than what Scripture itself claims about Jesus. So he turns to themes that go into underwriting Scripture's claims about Jesus: The historicity of Jesus of Nazareth, the trustworthiness of the New Testament witnesses to him, the falseness of comparisons of Jesus to mythical figures, and the reality of miracles.
Man, Myth, Messiah is meant to be an introductory text, so readers who are hoping for in-depth analysis will be disappointed. But in a clear, coherent way, Brooks sets out all the arguments that go into answering this question for a critical culture such as our own.
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