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Who is the real Jesus? How can we experience the mystery, complexity, and richness of his spirituality and teachings in our lives today? In this gently instructive and inspiring guide, Luke Timothy Johnson leads us to a deeper understanding of classic Christian spirituality and faith. Translating his biblical scholarship into simple, elegant language, he reflects on the real Jesus--not the reconstructed historical figure but the resurrected Christ, a living savior we can encounter every day.

Living Jesus clarifies the mystery of Jesus' resurrection and its central role in the Christian experience. It explores the many diverse New Testament views of Christ, revealing how each book's perspective can deepen our understanding of Jesus. Profoundly insightful, Living Jesus offers valuable lessons on how we can accept the Gospels' powerful invitation to an authentic Christian spirituality.Luke Timothy Johnson is Robert W. Woodruff Professor of the New Testament and Christian Origins at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University. A Roman Catholic, Johnson was a Benedictine monk and priest before becoming a biblical scholar. He is the author of several scholarly books and has written for Commonwealth and Christian Century."A rich book... Highly recommended."- Lawrence Cunningham, Commonweal

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Publishers Weekly Review

Johnson (The Real Jesus), the Jesus Seminar's thorn in the flesh, presents the rich spirituality of the Gospels. Johnson argues that, according to his reading of the Gospels, Jesus is not a dead, historical figure but a living character in believers' lives. He asserts that the true purpose of the New Testament is to show Christians how to model their lives on Jesus' life. Johnson's book is divided into two complementary parts. In part one, Johnson contends that to be a Christian means to claim that Jesus is life-giving Spirit, to live according to Jesus' words and works and to bear witness, as Jesus did, to the reality of God. Part two engages in a close reading of the Gospels, noting that each Gospel's specific way of shaping its community's memories of Jesus is affected by the author's perceptions of his readers' situation. Although each Gospel provides a different perspective on Jesus, Johnson says, the same living figure is recognizable in the varied portraits. Refusing to be taken in by what he perceives as the deadening effects of the historical criticism of the Gospels, Johnson offers a spiritual reading that, in his mind, gives the only true access to the Jesus of authentic Christian faith. (Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Booklist Review

Johnson is as polemical as Jesus Seminar cofounder Robert Funk, and the two have become antagonists in the struggle over how to "read" Jesus. Johnson's latest salvo contains no surprises. A relentless critic of quests for the historical Jesus, particularly that of the Jesus Seminar, Johnson calls for "reading" Jesus as present and alive rather than past and dead. His reading of Scripture is most interesting for its direction, moving back from writings primarily concerned with the risen Christ (Revelation, the pastoral Epistles, and Paul) to those more concerned with the pre-Resurrection life of Jesus (the synoptic Gospels and John). This is almost exactly the reverse of the direction of reading followed by historical Jesus research from Albert Schweitzer to the present. Philosophically inclined readers will find Johnson's evocation of the Christian life pattern provocative; if not the heart of the Gospel, this is the heart of the controversy. For if Christianity since Paul enjoins adherents to embody the pattern of Jesus, just what that pattern is, is of more than academic interest. --Steven Schroeder