Jesus-Shock Book

This was an astonishingly good little book. Catholic theologian Peter Kreeft is always interesting to read, and this sharp, punchy little book is no exception. At times he came across as a cross between G. K. Chesterton and C. S. Lewis, a comparison I'm sure he'd appreciate.

The book is about how shocking Jesus is, how the mere mention of His name in conversation changes everything about that conversation forever. It is a means by which Kreeft tears down all our safe ways of "Christianizing" Jesus until He isn't quite so shocking any more. It's about how all truth and all theology and all of the Christian religion is ultimately about nothing more than an encounter with a living, resurrected, divine Person, and how we can lose sight of that fact too easily. He challenges the prevailing wisdom by pointing out that we meet with Jesus in the Church and her Sacraments (as a Catholic, he differs with my own view a bit, but his main point is that we must see Christ as really present in the Eucharist particularly, and the point is well taken).

I really recommend it as a book that will shake you up.