The Unvarnished Jesus

by Samuel G. Parkison

ISBN: 9781527112223

Published: 2025-01-14

Powerful, trustworthy... beautiful? Samuel G. Parkison makes a startling claim: Jesus is the most beautiful man to ever exist. His defence is theoretical and experiential: he knows him to be ultimate beauty and he has experienced him to be so. Deconstructing cultural notions that beauty is subjective or sentimental, Parkison constructs an impressive picture of God's breathtaking beauty. On this firm foundation, the only building to rise is one that testifies to Jesus, the God-man, as the most beautiful man that ever lived. There's beauty on every page of Jesus' story. From before time, the beautiful foreknowledge of the Father prepared for the beauty of the incarnation. From this beautiful birth came a ministry brimming with beauty, and a death that overflowed with it. This beautiful sunset is followed by a resurrection sunrise: the beautiful declaration that salvation is secure. Having ascended, with beauty unbound, he now reigns forever as our ceaseless intercessor. Through the...