![]() ![]() ![]() Zealot recently shot to the top of the best seller list due to a notorious interview on Fox News, where Lauren Green began by asking the author why a Muslim would write about Christianity’s founder. ![]() His book is for the general audience with the express purpose of prying the historical Jesus away from the Christ of Christianity (120, 215-216). He now claims to be more devoted to Jesus than ever–a “committed disciple” (xx) of the “real Jesus”–not the “Jesus of faith.” Aslan thinks his portrait of Jesus, hidden behind layers of theology and centuries of interpretation, may in fact be more accurate than what the Gospels present (xxviii). After two decades of rigorous research into the origins of Christianity he concluded he had previously been duped, and returned to Islam (xix). Reza Aslan grew up in a nominally Muslim family in Northern California, and converted to Christianity at age thirteen. ![]()
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