Christ as Truth, Truth as Christ: Why the Ancients Chose Christ, Why We Must Also

This book seeks to explain the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the most compelling way possible from the author's perspective as a political journalist in the nation’s capital (though as the reader will see, Fr. Deacon Brian Patrick Mitchell, PhD, is far more than a journalists), where gangs of professional liars dominate the making of policy and law. His strategy was to make the choice of belief or disbelief as stark as possible, not by presenting belief in God as a logical conclusion that a rational man must simply accept, but by presenting belief or disbelief in Christ as a logically unavoidable choice of good or evil that every man must make and indeed does make in how he lives his life, honestly or dishonestly. For, as the book argues, it is only Jesus Christ who makes rational sense of believing in truth. Without a God such as the Christian God, it makes more sense to be a liar.Wending through the sophisticated labyrinth that was ancient thought, Fr. Brian Patrick Mitchell shows that the Christian Faith was not merely another alternative in a pluralistic maze, but the only alternative to the myriad and contradictory creeds of the ancient world, whether the sophisticated systems coming from Athens and the Academy, or the splendid and glorious powers descending from imperial Rome. The conclusions the ancient reached, as Christ as Truth makes clear, are ones that we neglect to our great peril. Read more