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Book Review: "The Easter Jesus and the Good Friday Church" - 3 1/2 Stars

The Easter Jesus and the Good Friday Church: Reclaiming the Centrality of the Resurrection Gregory S. Athnos Outskirts Press, Inc. 10940 S. Parker Rd - 515, Parker, CO 80134 Copyright: 2011 ISBN: 978-1-4327-7450-9; $19.95 (Reviewed for ReaderViews http://www.readerviews.com ) For Christians there is a central set of defining, distinctive, unbendable, tenets. One crucial portion of those dogmas focus on Jesus, who he is and what he has done. The chief assertion is that Jesus, after his crucifixion, rose from the dead. This becomes the event through which everything about Jesus is interpreted, from his birth to his burial and beyond. To lose or lessen this principal declaration is to undermine, and eventually, negate Christianity all together. That’s Gregory S. Athnos’s point in his new work, “The Easter Jesus and the Good Friday Church: Reclaiming the Centrality of the Resurrection,” an easy to read 230 page paperback, written for Christians and non-Christians alike. Athnos b