Daniel L. Wick

The Jesus most people think they know is not the Jesus of history, according to intensive scholarly analysis that international award-winning historian Daniel L. Wick has conducted. His new book Jesus, the God Within: Foundations of a Forgotten Faith, the result of 10 years of research, meticulously reconstructs the world in which Jesus lived as no author has previously done. The book focuses on the human Jesus of history rather than the divine Christ of faith. Wick reveals how people in that ancient time sensed, felt, thought and worshipped. Only in the context of that vanished world can Jesus and his followers be properly understood.

"This is the most important book on Jesus you will ever read," wrote Richard N. Schwab, professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Davis. Wick recreates Jesus’ ancient world using a variety of novel historical methods that depart sharply from the often flawed approaches that led previous scholars to make fallacious assertions.

Wick declares, "The canonical Gospels are works of literary genius. Despite obvious contradictions and inconsistencies among them, their narratives have understandably mesmerized Christians since ancient times. But it must be recognized that they are far more fiction than fact." He has amassed a convincing body of evidence to explain why.

Jesus, the God Within presents revelations that bring new clarity to interrelationships that previously were obscured, ignored or incorrectly interpreted. After reading Jesus, the God Within, you will never be able to view the world in which Jesus lived and taught as you did before. By accompanying Wick on this intellectual journey, you will develop a greater appreciation of the enormous complexity of that ancient world, and a heightened admiration for the religious genius that Jesus surely was.