"Jesus for the unbelievers" - for the first time published in Russian one of the most famous - vigorously discussed, sorted into quotes books by John Shelby Spong, a bishop, whom some call a dangerous atheist and the most fierce heretic of our time, and others - an inspired prophet of living faith and the forerunner 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 figure out what is really behind the doctrine of Jesus of Nazareth, which has been spread by the official church for centuries. Was there something vital then and is there today, maybe even divine, in all this? Spong radically deconstructs gospel narratives by tearing down the frozen reinforced concrete walls under which Jesus and his teachings have buried centuries of church ideology, and recounts religious barriers and dead ends that limit reason, faith, and humanity and repel the church today by contradicting Jesus' message.