Author: David Burns

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2013-02-28

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0199929505

This unconventional cultural history explores the lifecycle of the radical historical Jesus, a construct created by the freethinkers, feminists, socialists and anarchists who used the findings of biblical criticism to mount a serious challenge to the authority of elite liberal divines during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.