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James Carroll
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William Collins
Published
November 2014
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James Carroll
Book Format
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Publisher
William Collins
Published
November 2014
£14.87
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What can we believe about, and how can we believe in, Jesus in the twenty-first century, in light of the Holocaust and other atrocities, and the drift from religion that followed? The key lies in Jesus' Jewishness.
What New York Times bestselling author James Carroll has discovered through decades of writing and lecturing, is that he is far from alone in clinging to a received memory of Jesus that separates him from his crucial identity as a Jew, and therefore as a human. Yet if Jesus was not taken as divine, he would be of no interest to us. What can that mean now? Paradoxically, the key is his permanent Jewishness. No Christian himself, Jesus actually transcends Christianity.
Drawing on both a wide range of scholarship as well as his own acute searching as a believer, Carroll takes a fresh look at the most familiar narratives of all - Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Far from another book about the "historical Jesus," he takes the challenges of science and contemporary philosophy seriously. Starting with Bonhoeffer's question written in his Nazi cell - "What is bothering me incessantly is the question - Who Christ actually is for us today?", he retrieves the power of Jesus' profound ordinariness as an answer both to this question and as the key to a renewal of faith for us all.
Author
James Carroll
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
William Collins
Published
November 2014
Weight
488g
Page Count
368
Dimensions
153 x 234 x 27 mm
ISBN
9780008103484
ISBN-10
0008103488
Eden Code
4297123
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Author/Creator: James Carroll
ISBN: 9780008103484
Publisher: William Collins
Release Date: November 2014
Weight: 488g
Dimensions: 153 x 234 x 27 mm
Eden Code: 4297123