Study Guide
A Credible Jesus

CHAPTER BY CHAPTER GUIDES

Jesus, like the real Abraham Lincoln and the real Socrates, floats there in the collective imagination as an elusive but endlessly tantalizing figure who, if liberated, promises to help us discover who we really are and what life is all about. —Robert W. Funk, Honest to Jesus, p. 63

Introduction Voice Print & Appendix 3
1   The Invisible Realm
2   A Trust Ethic & Appendix 1
3   Celebration
4   Outsiders & Outcasts
5   Transcending Tribalism & Appendix 2
6   Kinship
7   Flora & Fauna
8   Values Are Counterintuitive
9   New Symbols Parody the Old
10   Subverting the System
11   No Room for Demons
12   Rewards are Intrinsic
13   Humor & Humility
14   The End of Brokered Religion
15   The Unkingdom of the UnGod
16   The Domain of God as Mythic Destination
17   The Cross as Symbol of Integrity

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