The Lost Religion of Jesus - Simple Living and Non-Violence in Early Christianity (Paperback)

This portrait of Jesus concentrates on ethics, as opposed to theology, claiming Jesus' preaching was first and foremost about simple living, pacifism, and vegetarianism, and that he had never intended to create a new religion. Jewish Christianity has a history which can be traced from the Essenes and John the Baptist, through Jesus, to its disappearance into Islamic mysticism in the 7th or 8th century.