Who was Jesus really ? A prophet? A healer? A radical revolutionary? A charismatic figure with extraordinary gifts ? Countless books have been written about her figure , but never got to an end and every time must go back to your game.

Gerhard Lohfink shows how the purely historical method can approach Jesus without an unbridgeable chasm with the view that believers have it arises. Was utopian kingdom of God proclaimed ? According to the author , no. On the one hand , utopia is almost always a total , closed system , which requires that the old world is demolished . In Jesus , however , tensions remain reality : ; between the individual and the community, between the State and the people of God in the kingdom of God already and not yet, and between that kingdom as pure gift and the possibility that the man free look . On the other hand , his message gave rise to new communities throughout the Mediterranean basin , and started in the same still alive and continues to transform the world , despite all its weaknesses, all their misery and their constant mistakes. The praxis of this kingdom is more radical than all utopias . It is more sober and more critical , and the only hope for wounds and diseases of our planet.

The author hopes that this book will help to approach the real Jesus with critical and differentiated attitude, but at the same time, open and full of confidence.