“Jesus for Unbelievers” - published for the first time in Russian, one of the most famous - heatedly discussed, quoted books by John Shelby Spong, a bishop whom some call a dangerous atheist and the most vicious heretic of our time, while others call him an inspired living prophet faith and forerunners of new global shifts in religious worldview. Today, when church dogmas and orders have become meaningless for many, and traditional forms of Christianity, tied to all sorts of supernatural miracles and medieval legends, are irreversibly sliding into the past, it is more important than ever to understand what really stands behind the teaching about Jesus of Nazareth, which spread by the official church for centuries. Was there something vital then and is there today, perhaps even divine, in all this? Spong radically dismantles the gospel narratives, breaking down the rigid concrete walls under which centuries of church ideology have buried Jesus and his teachings, and reveals the religious barriers and impasses that limit reason, faith and humanity and alienate the church today, contradicting the message of Jesus.