Saving Jesus From the Church

The book is written by a United Church of Christ minister. The basic theme is that churches do not really understand just what it is that Jesus said and preached. He examines the historical Jesus, the crucifixion, , the Gnostic vs. the 'accepted' gospels, the argument in the gospels themselves about who first saw the resurrected Jesus, wisdom theology and a variety of other related topics.

The basic idea is that Christian religion has interpreted the teachings of Jesus in a rather negative way and that the emphasis should be on following Jesus and his sayings as a person and not as a being to be worshiped.

The book does get rather complicated at times.