Douglas F. Birch's book continues his exploration of Christianity from the perspective of mankind's biological
endowment. In this book, the author shows that the biological paradigm releases Jesus of Nazareth from a
religious distortion that is derived from ancient Mesopotamian mythology.
It all began with a dilemma. And the dilemma was profoundly debilitating. It arose in the mind of an enthusiastic young man who had been raised in the circumscribed and ambivalent environment of a particular Presbyterian manse. Sunday by Sunday my father preached the life-affirming reality of Jesus of Nazareth. Imperceptibly at first, yet with increasing clarity as brain and body developed, all th