The Gospels As If for the First Time

John Fenton was one of the finest New Testament scholars of the last century, but his work has never received the attention it should, in part because he was a very modest man, and, I believe, a very holy one.

The only problem for today's reader is that at an early age he was inculcated with a draconian form of Anglo-Catholicism via von Hugel, so his sometimes hyperbolic statements on the self have to be read with a large handful of salt. He understood the self that observes and the self that is observed, but, working with only one epistemology, he does not understand —although I think he intuits—the unfolding truth  of the self in the deep mind.

Although I had the privilege to know him as a friend, we rarely talked shop, and for some reason I never read his books while he was alive, but I have just finished reading three of them, which I cannot recommend highly enough. Much of his learning must have rubbed off on me by osmosis, as it were, through his preaching and presence—in any event, I cannot recommend these books highly enough:

Finding the Way through Mark
Finding the Way through John
More on Mark

All three books were published in the  UK by SPCK and are still available.