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A rip roaring, hair raising, edge-of-your-chair saga of the first-century believers. From the day of Pentecost, on through the first seventeen years, every historical figure of that age is there: alive, vivid, believable.

On the morning of April 5th, 33 AD, Pontius Pilate wakes to news from his First Centurion that the body of Jesus Christ whom he crucified a few days earlier is missing from the tomb his soldiers were guarding. There is a general alarm at Pilate's residence and within the Jewish Temple, both in Jerusalem. Pilate is visited by Chief Priest Caiaphas to whom he commits to finding the body. Pilate commissions his tax collectors and other informants who were welcomed associates of Jesus to find out what happened to the body.

The conversation about the proper role of religion in American public life often revolves around what kind of polity the Founders of the United States envisioned. In this book, Jerome E. Copulsky complicates this ongoing public argument by examining a collection of thinkers who, on religious grounds, considered the nation's political ideas illegitimate, its institutions flawed, and its church-state arrangement defective.