Jesus
A Biography, from a Believer

This may be a difficult book for some readers who are not Christians, because author Paul Johnson accepts the divinity of Christ (as he states unambiguously in the subtitle, A Biography From a Believer). But I recommend the book to any and all readers, because it gives a perspective of Christ that y......more

More than any other book - other than the Bible - Paul Johnson's "Jesus - A Biography From A Believer" helped me to understand the life, character, teachings, and context of the man whose life changed the course of human history. After reading this wonderfully precise and and moving work, my praise......more

So this was a biography of Jesus basically combining the four gospels with some additions about Jesus in other Scriptures. I liked this. I thought it was well done, but when he got to Jesus’ teachings he went into a “New Ten Commandments” , nothing he said I necessarily disagreed with, but it was the......more

This was more or less a prose summary of the New Testament gospels. It was if someone was given a book review of the four gospels -- I didn't really learn anything I couldn't have known if I read them myself. This was basically the Cliff's Notes version on the NT. I was a bit put off when he began t......more

Here's an impious thought for the impious: surely there's something deeply wonderful that the most important man in human history was a carpenter, a poor man living in the first century equivalent of Walsall, rather than a conqueror or a king. Think of those other candidates for most important man i......more