Jesus and After The First Eighty Years

Jesus and After uses extracts from Biblical and other writings to outline the birth and early development of the Jesus sect of Judaism, its early simplicity, its later complication, and its separation from its Jewish parent. In addition to its focus on the past, it offers suggestions for the future of both religions. The book shows how these writings fit together chronologically, and how together they give a sense of the evolution of Christian thinking, from the death of Jesus to the trials of Christians under Pliny. It has the scholar in view, but has been arranged for the convenience of study groups or individual Christians, concerned for what the Biblical past means for them today.