failure, whether carried out by the more positive or the more negative critics. The idea of the search presupposes that the real Jesus has been lost and needs to be found. My view is that the only real Jesus is the One presented in the canonical Gospels and that any other Jesus is irrelevant to Christian faith. The title of each of the chapters poses a question which has engaged many of the greatest minds in the history of Christian theology. They have not given us simple pat answers that we have