Jesus Christ: A Reply to M. Renan is a book written by Auguste Joseph Alphonse Gratry in 1868. The book is a response to Ernest Renan's controversial work, The Life of Jesus, which had been published the previous year. Renan's book had presented a highly romanticized view of Jesus as a mere human being, rather than as the divine figure that Christians believe him to be. Gratry, a French Catholic priest and theologian, wrote Jesus Christ: A Reply to...