What is the authentic gospel? How do we answer the sceptics?Christianity is not a religion, but God\'s good news for the world. This implies that it has both a divine origin and a human relevance: it comes from God and it speaks to our condition.So, before we ask, \'What is the gospel?\', we need to ask, \'What is a human being?\'Chapter 1: The human paradox looks at what the Bible teaches and what our experience endorses: the glory and shame of our humanness, both our dignity as creatures made in God\'s image and our depravity as sinners under his judgement.Chapter 2: Human freedom: what is traditionally called \'salvation\', seen in terms of \'authentic freedom\'.Chapters 3 and 4: The central themes of the death and resurrection of Jesus, securing our freedom. This section also looks at a number of objections and denials.Chapter 5: The far-reaching implications, both for faith and for life.Radical indeed is the discipleship which takes all of this and Christ\'s lordship seriously. It\'s nothing short of a life-changing message.