In The Much Despised Jesus, Louis A. DeCaro Jr. delivers a piercing, Gospel-centered intervention for a church increasingly caught in a culture of "familiar apostasy." Tracing the long lineage of human resistance to Christ—from ancient Roman graffiti to modern entertainment, and from liberal theological compromise to comfortable evangelical consumerism—DeCaro demonstrates that the modern world does not revere Jesus; it domesticates him. Unflinching and deeply rooted in Scripture, this book calls believers back to the real, risen, and radical Lord—the One who demands not mere admiration, but absolute allegiance and a life of daily self-denial.