Jesus of Nazareth, Part II: From His Transfiguration Through His Death and Resurrection (Pope Benedict XVI) - Sewn Hardcover

For Christians, Jesus of Nazareth is the Son of God who died for the sins of the world and who rose from the dead in triumph over sin and death.  For non-Christians, he is almost anything else--myth, a political revolutionary, a prophet whose teaching was misunderstood or distorted by his followers.

Benedict XVI thinks that the best of historical scholarship, while it can't "prove" Jesus is the Son of God, certainly doesn't disprove it.  Indeed, Benedict maintains that the evidence, fairly considered, brings us face-to-face with the challenge of Jesus--a real man who taught and acted in ways that were tantamount to claims of divine authority, claims not easily dismissed as lunacy or deception.

Benedict XVI presents this challenge in his new book, Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week: From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection, the sequel volume to Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration.

Benedict brings to his study the vast learning of a scholar, the passionate searching of a great mind, and the deep compassion of a pastor's heart.  In the end, he dares readers to grapple with the meaning of Jesus' life, teaching, death, and resurrection. 

• Author:  Pope Benedict XVI
• Format:  384 pages, sewn hardcover
• Publisher:  Ignatius Press
• ISBN:  9781586175009