John Dominic Crossan and Burton L. Mack have proved enormously influential in recent years with their radical views on a Jesus, as Cynic sage, who bore only remote resemblance to the Christ of the Gospels. Gregory Boyd offers the most thorough demolitions of their theories to date. He has mastered a vast secondary literature and selected from it judiciously. Boyd thus presents clearly compelling counterarguments, which open the door once again to belief in the general trustworthiness of the New Testament portraits of Jesus.
-- Craig L. Blomberg, Denver Seminary

Boyd's book provides us with a detailed response to the arguments of Crossan, Mack and others about the character of Jesus' ministry and of the early church. His arguments show wide-reaching and careful analysis. I recommend this book to those interested in Jesus as sage and Son of God.
-- Ben Witherington III, Asbury Theological Seminary

Seldom does one find the kind of painstaking scrutiny and bibliographic competence exhibited by Greg Boyd in Cynic Sage or Son of God? While writing with the careful insight of a scholar intensely concerned with primary sources, Dr. Boyd also reaches the same audience addressed by the Jesus Seminar: general readers interested in the factual basis for the historical Jesus.
-- Gary Habermas, Liberty University

In the long term, I am sure that Jesus as attested by the four Gospels will stand and reduced portraits of him emanating from the halls of a skeptical academy will be forgotten. However, the short term is the span of our brief life and people can be harmed by widely circulated lies, even of a temporary duration. Therefore, we need what Gregory Boyd has written - a systematic criticism of the Cynic-Jesus hypothesis - to keep the door to faith open to seekers and to allay fears of falsification.
- Clark H. Pinnock, McMaster Divinity School

The work of the 'Jesus Seminar' in general and John Dominic Crossan and Burton Mack in particular constitutes a sharp challenge to the historical foundations of the Christian faith. In this work Gregory Boyd clearly and decisively shows that the view that Jesus was a 'Cynic sage' rests on a tissue of circular argument, implausible speculation, and dubious philosophical assumptions. This book is full of good sense and good arguments.
- C. Stephen Evans, Calvin College