In Aslan’s view, the facts of Jesus of Nazareth’s biography should inform any belief system that calls itself Christian-though he acknowledges the impossibility of piecing together a full or conclusive historical record. In Aslan’s telling, Jesus was a political revolutionary who fought for social justice, championed the downtrodden, and sought actively to disrupt Rome’s dominion and bring forth a new worldview. In Zealot, Aslan aligns himself with the scholars-Christian and otherwise-who argue for a clear distinction between Jesus Christ, leading man of the four Christian Gospels, and Jesus of Nazareth, the Jewish peasant and itinerant leader who was crucified for insurrection in the First Century. Eight Books That Explain the South Imani Perry
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