There are two gospels: one that appeals to who we are in the world, and one that appeals to who we are in God.

Our contemporary notion of the truth of the gospel is more the result of Aristotle than Jesus because Aristotle had told us that truth was something to know. In the modern era of the 17th and 18th centuries Western civilization decided that our knowing of truth should be object, certain, and precise after the model of mathematics. Consequently, the notions of modern Christianity that began to appear at that time have ultimately created over forty thousand different Christian denominations worldwide, each claiming that they have a more objective, certain, and precise knowing of the gospel. Jesus’ truth, however, is a way to be and a life rather than something to know and believe. “I am the way, and the truth, and the life.” This book is about how we get back to that idea of truth as something to be rather than something to merely claim to know and believe.

The benefit of the deeper life to which Jesus calls his disciples is that it alone allows us to see the beauty and goodness of Jesus words and want those living words to take root within us and produce the fruit of the gospel. Before you walk away from a shallow Christianity of right beliefs try it on this deeper ontological level from which you can see the beauty and goodness of Jesus’ words and want those living words to produce new life within you.

Buy The Disciples’ Gospel when you want to get serious about Jesus and the call he has upon your life.

James P Danaher Ph.D. is professor emeritus and past head of the philosophy department at Nyack College/Alliance University, but this is not a book of academic philosophy. It is more about the words of Jesus and our difficulty of seeing their beauty and goodness because of the concept of truth that we have inherited from our Western Civilization.

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