Jesus as Precursor (Eagle Books)

About this book

In this volume of essays Robert Funk first explores the work of artists and thinkers such as Kafka Beckett Henry Miller Castaneda Fowles and Thoreau in order "to let Jesus real successors discover him to us." Then under the heading "Voices of Silence " he reflects on language and modern reality. Funk concludes that the central theological issueto which he responds with twenty-one suggestions about theologyis whether human beings can find "a real world to which they can give themselves.