Authors: Paul Rhodes Eddy and Gregory A. Boyd
In The Jesus Legend, Dr. Greg Boyd and Dr. Paul Eddy attempt to address every scholarly argument currently put forth in support of the view that the portrait of Jesus in the Gospel’s is mostly, if not entirely, legendary. Against these arguments, Boyd and Eddy provide compelling evidence and argumentation supporting the view that the Jesus of the Gospels is rooted in history, not legend. They demonstrate that the assumption that drives the legendary Jesus thesis is that supernaturally inspired events cannot occur. They then show that, once someone admits that the Jesus portrayed in the Gospels could possibly be historically accurate, they will find there are many compelling reasons to conclude that this portrait is in fact historically accurate.