Rediscovering His Truth In An Age Of Mass Marketed Spirituality

Ravi Zacharias 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.