The revolutionary book that will change the way you think about Christianity.

How is it possible for Jesus to be the Son of God? Why is it that only Christianity has a founder who is also the subject of the religion? And if Jesus were really a peasant preacher from Galilee, then why do all the earliest sources speak of him as the divine savior and as God himself?

Conventional scholars, locked into the failed paradigm of the historical Jesus, have no answers to these questions. This book develops a radical new approach by looking at how new religions form. The typical pattern...