An Introduction to the New Testament for Catholics

"Kelly shows that in looking at the New Testament we see real people communicating with us - sharing their beliefs, their fears, and their hopes. Distant yet familiar, challenging yet comprehensible, the New Testament is a precious heritage, and one that Kelly recommends we must make our own. Kelly helps readers to understand what modern scholars say about the individual books. He argues that we can't understand what role Jesus can play in modern life if we don't understand what he meant to the earliest Christians."--BOOK JACKET.

Joseph F. Kelly is professor of religious studies at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio.