Counterfeit Christs : Finding the Real Jesus Among the Impostors

In Counterfeit Christs, Trent looks at eighteen phony versions of Jesus
that we encounter today. Some are the creation of non-Christians: like
skeptics who dismiss Jesus as a fictional composite of ancient myths,
secular humanists who think he was just a Nice Man, or adherents of
other religions who claim Him as a prophet or guru in their own
tradition. Others stem from Christian or quasi-Christian theology gone
so far wrong that its founder is no longer recognizable.
Think of the
greed-affirming Jesus of "prosperity gospel" preachers or the sects that
strip Christ of His divinity. And of course there are enthusiasts for
ideological causes who make him a model Marxist (or Democrat or
Republican), or enlist him as a convenient spokesman for tolerance of
the thing they want to do or promote. In all these examples and more,
the authentic Jesus of Scripture and Tradition is obscured by a pale
imitator, and so is the saving power of His wisdom and grace.
Read
Counterfeit Christs, then, and be able to recognize the fakes when you
see them, explain why they are phony, and make a case for the full truth
and beauty of who Jesus is: the Christ, Son of the living God! (Matthew 16:16)