Christology is crazy. It's rather absurd to identify a first-century
homeless Jew as God revealed, but a bunch of us do anyway. In this book,
Tripp Fuller examines the historical Jesus, the development of the
doctrine of Christ, the questions that drove christological innovations
through church history, contemporary constructive proposals, and the
predicament of belief for the church today. Recognizing that the battle
over Jesus is no longer a public debate between the skeptic and believer
but an internal struggle in the heart of many disciples, he argues that
we continue to make christological claims about more than an "event" or
simply the "Jesus of history." On the other hand, C. S. Lewis's
infamous "liar, lunatic, and Lord" scheme is no longer intellectually
tenable. This may be a guide to Jesus, but for Christians, Fuller is
guiding us toward a deeper understanding of God. He thinks it's good
news—good news about a God who is so invested in the world that God
refuses to be God without us.
