” “"I trust the Gospels", because "each book of the Holy Scriptures, as well as the Scriptures as a whole, is not just fiction": this was written by the Pope in the preface to his first book written as a Pontiff, "Jesus of Nazareth", that was presented to the press today. "I wanted to try explains Benedict XVI to present the Jesus of the Gospel as the real Jesus, as the historical Jesus in the truest sense. I am convinced, and I hope readers too will realise, that this figure is much more logical and historically more understandable than the reconstructions with which we had to come to terms over the last decades. I think this is precisely why Jesus that of the Gospels is a historically meaningful and persuasive figure". "To the book on Jesus, the first part of which I am now presenting to the public, I have arrived after a long inner journey", reveals the Pope to the reader in the first few pages of the book, which "is by no means an act of the magisterium explains the Pope but just the expression of my personal quest for the Lord’s Face", on which "anyone is free to prove me wrong". (continued)” “
