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Let me share my blurb endorsing Kyle Roberts\u2019 new book:<\/p>\n

In A Complicated Pregnancy<\/a><\/em>, Kyle Roberts<\/a> offers a dramatic, sincerely honest, and deeply personal exploration of the question of Jesus\u2019 virginal conception. While many other books wrestle with this topic primarily from another angle (that of historical uncertainty and Gospel discrepancies, which Roberts does also cover), in Roberts\u2019 book a profoundly theological approach dominates, as he surveys a wide array of famous and neglected early Christian authors. He also invites readers to take a long hard look at our aversion to blood and semen, to sex, spit, and excrement, and the way this has motivated us to disconnect Jesus from such mundane yet essential human elements \u2013 with troubling results for our view of Jesus\u2019 own humanity, and thus also his connection to us.\u00a0The book\u2019s wrestling with history, science, and the various facts of life are offered not in order to tear down cherished beliefs with no good reason, but precisely in order to counter the devaluation of human existence in general, and of women, reproduction, and the humanity of Jesus in particular, so as to make the case that in Jesus, we encounter God precisely in a human being who was not immune or exempt from those characteristic experiences that make us human.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See more endorsements for the book on Kyle\u2019s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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