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Why Jesus?

Rediscovering His Truth in an Age of Mass Marketed Spirituality

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By Ravi Zacharias

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Jan 25, 2012
Publisher
Hachette Audio
ISBN-13
9781609414580

Modern media and New Age spirituality collide in this cultural examination of the long-held beliefs and claims about Jesus and Christianity. 

The author believes that over the past forty years movements like New Age spirituality and society’s obsession with human potential have combined like a “perfect storm” to redefine for popular culture what has been for centuries the classic biblical definition of the person, work, and teaching of Jesus Christ. In Why Jesus?, Ravi Zacharias looks at the impact of this “storm” by discussing the 60s-70s “Age of Aquarius,” actor Shirley MacLaine’s book and TV series Out On a Limb, author James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy), Rhonda Byrne (The Secret), Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code), and other books by Eckart Tolle, Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, the Dali Lama, and Marianne Williamson. Special attention will be given to the influence of Oprah Winfrey’s media platform in reshaping society by introducing and promoting certain books and authors.

Major new age and human potential tenets will be discussed like: the belief that we are all gods and have to discover our divinity; Jesus was only a good teacher; Christianity is but one among many ways to eternal life; reincarnation is real; Jesus was married; truth is relative; there is no sin; and perfection is possible.

The truth of and the arguments for the bodily resurrection of Jesus will be presented as the most important argument for the exclusive claims about Jesus and Christianity.

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  • "Ravi Zacharias gives a powerful defence of how Jesus Christ brings meaning and hope to an individual life."
    Billy Graham
  • "Ravi takes a scholarly yet imaginative approach to aplogetics."
    Bruce Wilkinson, author of the #1 "New York Times" bestseller The Prayer of Jabez
  • "The works of Ravi Zacharias are a vital resource around our house."
    Frank Peretti
  • "I am not aquainted with a brighter mind or a more relevant and devoted defender of the faith than Ravi Zacharias."
    Charles Swindoll
  • "To every generation God sends a prophet. Ravi Zacharias is that prophet for this generation. You must hear him."
    Josh McDowell
  • "Ravi Zacharias presents an outstanding defence of the Christian faith for our times."
    R.C. Sproul

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Ravi Zacharias

About the Author

Ravi Zacharias is the Founder and President of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with additional offices in Canada, Hong Kong, India, Singapore, the United Kingdom, Austria, South Africa, Spain, and Turkey. Zacharias and his wife, Margie, have three grown children. He is the author of many books, including Can Man Live Without God and Why Jesus?

Dr. Vince Vitale is Director of the Zacharias Institute. He was educated at Princeton University and the University of Oxford, and later taught philosophy of religion as a faculty member at both universities. During his undergraduate studies at Princeton, Dr. Vitale took an unexpected journey that led him to God. Later, while at Oxford, he developed a new response the problem of evil. This response — termed the Non-Identity Defense — is discussed in his and Ravi Zacharias’s previous book, Why Suffering? He is married to Jo, who also works for RZIM.

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