Jesus Is Not Safe: The Jesus We Think We Know ? and the One the Gospels Reveal
Description
The name of Jesus is everywhere. It is spoken in prayers and whispered in worship. It is shouted in traffic as a curse. People admire him, reject him, mock him, and die for him ? but almost no one is neutral about him.
Why?
Why, two thousand years on, does this one name still change the temperature of a room? We welcome every other god to the table. We grant our easy tolerance to Buddha, to Allah, to the vague benevolent universe. Only this name tightens the air. Only this name, of all the holy names in the world, has been turned into a curse. And why do so many who are sure they know Jesus know only a familiar image ? one shaped by culture, by habit, by their own quiet assumptions?
In Jesus Is Not Safe, Arthur A. Tiger invites you to look again at the person of Jesus Christ: not as a safe religious symbol or a comfortable moral teacher, but as the man who turned lives upside down, who made a claim no teacher would dare to make, who died under a curse and would not stay dead, and who still demands a response from everyone who meets him.
This book will not make him safe. It will do something better. If you think you already know Jesus, prepare to meet him again.
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Person
Arthur A. Tiger is a writer and theologian who explores the territory where faith meets science, philosophy, and the mysteries of human experience. At the heart of his work stands the apostle Paul ? a figure he returns to again and again, reconstructing lost epistles, reimagining Paul's voice for today, and tracing the depths of his radical transformation. Beyond Pauline studies, Tiger writes across an unusually wide range: from astrobiology and cosmology to psychology, relationships, and cultural criticism ? always searching for the connections that unite these disciplines rather than divide them. His own journey from skepticism to faith runs through everything he writes. Rather than offering easy answers, he invites readers to discover that honest questioning and genuine belief are not opposites but companions ? and that every scientific discovery is not a challenge to faith but an invitation to see it more clearly.
