The Teacher Is Here.
A new book with an invitation to rediscover Jesus—and follow him to where his own words lead.
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The Teacher is currently available on Amazon worldwide with more purchase options coming soon. It will be available on Kindle in September 2026. It is not currently available as an audiobook.
Step back - before the religion - to the love-centered message of Jesus himself.
In The Teacher, Robert Perry sets aside centuries of assumptions and starts over—“from the Bible up”—to discover what Jesus actually taught.
Rooted in the Gospels and Biblical scholarship, The Teacher invites you to encounter a Jesus who may be different from the one you inherited—and closer to the loving, liberating teacher you have longed to find.
In this book, I examine Jesus’ core wisdom teachings from the Gospels, and arrive at a portrait of a man who taught a groundbreaking vision of an unconditionally loving God.
He asked us to undergo a profound transformation of the heart in which we come to mirror this purely loving God on earth. And he promised us that if we did, we would live in an exalted state, immune to all earthly storms and free of all fear.
I conclude that Christianity significantly departed from this vision, but that we can reclaim it in our time.
— ROBERT PERRY
The Teacher is for readers who are ready to:
Meet a Jesus untangled from centuries of doctrine — directly from his own words.
See the kingdom, the ethics, the miracles, and the cross and resurrection not as separate pieces of Jesus' story — but as one coherent whole, resting on a single, radical vision of God.
Trade theological baggage for a teacher worth following.
What You'll Learn
- Why Jesus called himself a teacher — and how the early church quietly shifted the focus from what he taught to who he was.
- How one groundbreaking vision of God holds together everything Jesus taught, did, and became — his ethics, his miracles, his death, and his resurrection.
- What Jesus meant when he said the kingdom of God is already here, and how to enter it now instead of waiting for it.
- How the crucifixion and resurrection fit themes in Jesus' own sayings and parables — not an exception to his teaching, but its clearest demonstration.
- Why the apocalyptic sayings attributed to Jesus likely aren't his — and why this the crucial to reclaiming his real message.
- Why the "seeds" of Jesus' teaching — even in diluted form — still shaped our world, giving us hospitals, human rights, and a line of influence running from Tolstoy to Gandhi to Martin Luther King.
The Jesus presented here consistently summons us away from status, wealth, violence, anxiety, fear, and exclusion toward a life shaped by humility, simplicity, defenselessness, trust, and inclusion. That radical summons to higher ground remains as revolutionary today as it was two thousand years ago.
— DAVID P. GUSHEE (From the Foreword)
*** Bonus Gift ***
Order today and receive The Teacher online companion course.
From October 12–25, we're hosting a live, 14-day online companion course (think Book Club), with daily Zoom sessions from 2:00–2:45pm Eastern with author Robert Perry. Each day will cover one chapter, giving you the chance to ask questions, hear Robert's own reflections on the material, and process the what you're learning in real time with a community of fellow readers.
Can't make it live? Every call is recorded, so you can catch up on your own schedule without missing a single conversation.
How to Claim Your Bonus
- Preorder the book from Amazon.
- Forward your order confirmation (or a screenshot or the email itself) to [email protected].
That's it. Your spot in the live online course will be confirmed once we've reviewed your receipt, and you'll get your Zoom link by email before the course begins on October 12th.
Robert Perry has given us a gift—a portrait of Jesus's teaching that is approachable yet rigorously argued, spiritually moving yet scholarly honest. Perry invites us to hear Jesus the teacher with fresh ears, so that we might actually answer his oldest and simplest call: "follow me." What would happen if we did?
— BRIAN RECKER
Author of Hell Bent: How the Fear of Hell Holds Christians Back from a Spirituality of Love
Sometimes following Jesus means letting go of our old ideas about him.
This book represents years of research and offers a historically grounded and inspiring portrait of Jesus worthy of our faith.
Available Now on
Amazon Worldwide
The Teacher is currently available on Amazon worldwide with more purchase options coming soon. It will be available on Kindle in September 2026. It is not currently available as an audiobook.
About the Author
Robert Perry has spent decades studying the life and teachings of the historical Jesus. Inspired by the work of the Jesus Seminar, he co-founded an organization devoted to exploring Jesus in his historical context and recovering the original meaning of his teachings. Through the years, Robert created extensive educational content and hosted conversations with leading historical Jesus scholars, including Stephen Patterson, Dale Allison, and others.
Robert is also the founder and lead teacher of the Circle of Atonement Teaching and Healing Center, a nonprofit sharing the wisdom of A Course in Miracles since I993. Robert's lifelong work has centered on the careful study of spiritual texts and the question of how their original meaning can speak to us today. The Teacher: Reclaiming the Original Message of Jesus of Nazareth is the culmination of his many years of research into the message and vision at the heart of the Jesus tradition.
With his impeccable scholarship and profound understanding, Perry brings forth a Jesus both deeply illuminating and refreshingly new.
— MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
New York Times Bestselling Author of Mystic Jesus: The Mind of Love
Robert Perry is a trustworthy guide on the way of Jesus.
— SIMON J. JOSEPH, Ph.D.
University of California Los Angeles, author of A Social History of Christian Origins
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