One hears it said frequently today that Jesus and his message are ‘irrelevant’ to the problems of the modern world. The irrelevance of Jesus is not however a new discovery. He was irrelevant to his own world, too; so irrelevant that it was necessary for him to be murdered. The symbolism of his life and message was no more adjusted to the fashionable religious currents of his own day than it is adjusted to the fashionable ideological currents of our day. The symbolism of Jesus, then was as much out of harmony with his own time as it apparently is with our. One reflects at length and in depth on the symbolism because despite its apparent continuous irrelevancy it has still managed to survive and, indeed, become the dominant religious symbolism for substantial segment of the human population. One hears that today the influence of the Jesus symbolism has finally run it course.