In this newpresentation of the Gospels, Terry Eagleton makes a powerful andprovocative argument for Jesus Christ as a social, political and moralradical, a friend of anti-imperialists, outcasts and marginals, achampion of the poor, the sick and immigrants, and as an opponent ofthe rich, religious hierarchs, and hypocrites everywhere in otherwords, as a figure akin to revolutionaries like Robespierre, Marx, andChe Guevara.