The author believes that over the past forty years movements like New
Age spirituality and society's obsession with human potential have
combined like a perfect storm to redefine for popular culture what has
been for centuries the classic biblical definition of the person, work,
and teaching of Jesus Christ. In Why Jesus?, Ravi Zacharias looks at
the impact of this storm by discussing the 60s-70s Age of Aquarius,
actor Shirley MacLaine's book and TV series Out On a Limb, author
James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy), Rhonda Byrne (The Secret),
Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code), and other books by Eckart Tolle, Wayne
Dyer, Deepak Chopra, the Dali Lama, and Marianne Williamson. Special
attention will be given to the influence of Oprah Winfrey's media
platform in reshaping society by introducing and promoting certain books
and authors.
Major new age and human potential tenets will be discussed like: the
belief that we are all gods and have to discover our divinity; Jesus was
only a good teacher; Christianity is but one among many ways to eternal
life; reincarnation is real; Jesus was married; truth is relative; there
is no sin; and perfection is possible.
The truth of and the arguments for the bodily resurrection of Jesus will
be presented as the most important argument for the exclusive claims
about Jesus and Christianity.
