It is pretty impossible in the Western world, whether a believer or not, not to hear about a Jesus of Nazareth.
In "Mere Christianity", C.S. Lewis let's us know that we cannot ignore the persona of Christ. He was just someone, and in a trilemma, where he tells us that Jesus was either Lunatic, Liar or Lord. But not a simple "nice guy", or a "prophet".
Pope Benedict brings to us his personal search for this Jesus in a series of books called "Jesus Of Nazareth".
He calls invites us to search for the historic Jesus, as well as the Christ of the Bible. Not as something out of the History Channel that only want to tells us he did not exist, or that the Bible is wrong. He invites us to the search for Christ with the eyes of faith, and the eyes of the Magisterium, but he doesn't blinds himself to other opinions and "opens" himself to a dialog with historians and respected clergymen of other religions to talk both of Jesus and Christ, and to help us realize that both are one and the same.
The book is a great, but it might be hard to read by oneself.
As group of friends, we started a small book club earlier this summer to help each other in the reading and understanding of these excellent writings by Pope Benedict XVI.
We welcome you to a respectful discussion and a walk with us, Pope Benedict and other writers, thinkers and philosophers in the personal search for Jesus the Christ.
