Trendy, the title of this book is quite apt. "The Changing Faces of Jesus," meaning that Jesus is fair game for reinterpretation according to the swirling currents of fashion in scholarship, as well as perceived changes in social mores and codes. Yet here is just another contemporary scholar that seeks to revise the scriptural Jesus, strip him of all of his supernatural claims and "transcendent" attributes, and put him into a far less problematic social, historical, and cultural context in our postmodernist-informed now. Too many of the pronouncements made in this book are simply too personal and are directed at those guided by their faith, not just scholars of another or same school of thought. This is a book that's especially useful to those who have no stake in the Jesus of the New Testament as the center of their faith, and who enjoy a good speculative argument that goes as far as it can on what little evidence there exists to support it.