CHRISTIANITY THEN and NOW: CAN IT BE SAVED?

This short book presents a renewed understanding of the Christian religion, based ona new textual analysis of John s Gospel, discovering the previously unnoticed fact thatit was written not as biography as with the synoptics, but as a systematic argumentfor the divinity of Jesus. This makes it the locus classicus the original authoritativepresentation of the traditional Jewish Christian religion to the philosophical and scientificHellenistic Gentile world, rendering Christianity eligible to be a worldwide religion. The book was not planned or intended. Its chapters began as separate individual piecescelebrating a series of historical occasions at my church. The discovery about John sGospel provided an anchor for a continuous treatment, which then required connectinglinkages, thus evolving into a coherent book. Our timing now is critical. It is possible that this arrives too late to be of much help,that the decline of our religion is too far gone now in this secular and technologicallytransforming age. But since we have no need yet to surrender, we offer this as a latearrival for public consideration.