What Jesus Taught And Why It Matters: Towards a Christianity With No Other Foundation But Christ

Georg Retzlaff

Sept. 2010 · AuthorHouse

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Do Jesus and His Gospel really matter? Looking at Christianity today, 2000 years later, one wonders whether what He shared with the world was quickly smothered by Old Testament legalism, Zoroastrian fantasies, Greek philosophical speculations, and Germanic folk traditions. Most Christians seem to think that their religion is about "going to heaven", eternal life after death, someone "paying the price" for our sins (to either God or the devil – an issue still not resolved). If Christianity is not first and foremost about His Words of Eternal Life, about the Gospel He preached, but rather about pre-, and preter-Christian ideologies, it has no right to call itself Christian. This book is about Jesus, and Jesus alone. No one should have laid another foundation except with His words being the cornerstone of all we are and do.

Autoren-Profil

Georg Retzlaff has been a priest and teacher in the church for almost forty years. Educated in Europe, he earned his Doctor of Theology degree in Church History from the University of Bern, Switzerland, and taught at colleges and universities in the USA, Liberia, and Tanzania before returning to parish ministry. His previous books and articles were published in Germany and Switzerland, with three recent publications at Authorhouse. Retzlaff has a passion for teaching and preaching on all levels, academic as well as congregational. He is presently serving as rector of an Episcopal parish in South Carolina.