Jesus is history's most gigantic
phenomenon which, at least in recent times, has been studiedly ignored
by the arbiters of public opinion. While Jews are an overwhelming choice
for topic, it has become tabu to refer, in connection with them, to Jesus,
though very much a Jew.
The Church, for various reasons, good and bad, is in the focus of attention, though never with a reference to the ties that connect it with its founder. No wonder that both in respect to Jews and to the Church, discussions lack a fulcrum, although it alone can account for the startling endurance of both. As to the saints, they are a mere curiousum for the media.
But Jesus can be understood only as the Jesus of the Jews, the Jesus of the Church, and the Jesus of the saints.
This book, the text of three lectures, develops those three themes with an emphasis on their connection. Once connected, those three topics make most instructive the question: Why believe in Jesus?