Counterfeit Christs: Finding the Real Jesus Among the Imposters

In Counterfeit Christs, Trent looks at eighteen false versions of Jesus that we encounter today. Some are the creation of non-Christians: like sceptics who dismiss Jesus as a fictional composite of ancient myths, secular humanists who think he was just a Nice Man, or adherents of other religions who claim him as a prophet or guru in their own tradition. Others stem from Christian or quasi-Christian theology gone so far wrong that its founder is no longer recognisable. Think of the greed-affirming Jesus of prosperity gospel preachers or the sects that strip Christ of his divinity. And of course there are enthusiasts for ideological causes who make him a model Marxist (or Democrat or Republican), or enlist him as a convenient spokesman for tolerance of the thing they want to do or promote. In all these examples and more, the authentic Jesus of Scripture and Tradition is obscured by a pale imitator, and so is the saving power of his wisdom and grace. Read Counterfeit Christs, then,and be able to recognise the fakes when you see them, explain why they are false, and make a case for the full truth and beauty of who Jesus is: the Christ, son of the living God (Matt. 16:16).

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