Let's Start with Jesus: A New Way of Doing Theology
In Search of a New Paradigm Who is God? Most of the gods that so-called unbelievers reject have never had any objective reality and are simply the goblin constructions of their own minds. Likewise, the god before whom the sincere believer bows may be a caricature that does little justice to the reality one believes oneself to be worshiping. Error— whether for the believer or the unbeliever—always carries unfortunate consequences. Jesus—the historical person—is the "stone of stumbling" that separates Christianity from all other religions, both monotheistic and polytheistic. That separation affects every aspect of Christian doctrine. But the paradigm for constructing theology usually begins with philosophical arguments for the existence of God and logical constructions to determine God’s nature. In Let’s Start with Jesus,author Dennis Kinlaw, a well-read biblical scholar, pursues a different mode for doing theology: he starts his theological work with looking at Jesus.