Paul Johnson's short biography of Jesus written explicitly from a believer's perspective — a devotional account that integrates historical scholarship with personal faith.
Johnson's deliberate positioning: rather than the 'historical Jesus' project (Crossan, Funk) which brackets faith to isolate historical core, Johnson writes as a believer taking the Gospel accounts seriously. The result is a different genre — not academic reconstruction but a meditation on what the Gospels present. Reflects Johnson's conservative Catholic intellectual tradition.
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