In what are billed “culture wars,” people on the political right and the political left cite Jesus as endorsing their views. Garry Wills argues that Jesus subscribed to no political program. He was far more radical than that. In a fresh reading of the gospels, Wills explores the meaning of the “reign of heaven” Jesus not only promised for the future but brought with him into this life. It is only by dodges and evasions that people misrepresent what Jesus plainly had to say against power, the wealthy, and religion itself. But Wills is just as critical of those who would make Jesus a mere ethical teacher, ignoring or playing down his divinity. An illuminating analysis for believers and nonbelievers alike, What Jesus Meant is a brilliant addition to our national conversation on religion.
The New York Times - Jon MeachamDrawing on the wonderful scholarship of N. T. Wright, the late Raymond Brown and others, Wills makes a trenchant case for why Jesus' earliest followers believed in their Lord's physical resurrection. If the tomb had not been empty, the authorities could have shut down the early Christians rather easily by dragging out Jesus' bones; they had, after all, gone to all the trouble to execute him, and the only plausible explanation for the disciples' transformation from scattered and scared to fierce preachers and martyrs is that they came to believe Jesus had in fact risen from the dead and began, at last, to understand what he had been saying to them all along. So what was what is the ultimate meaning of Jesus? The question will be with us always, even to the end of the age. But we do know this: One cannot read his story without seeing that there is no life without love.
Categories:
- Religion & Spirituality
- New Age & Spirituality
- Inspirational
- New Age & Spirituality
Publisher : Penguin Books
Author : Wills, Garry
Language : English
Edition : Reprint
Published :2007-02-27
Number Of Pages : 176
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 014303880X
ISBN-13 : 9780143038801
Item weight : 0.3 lb
Dimensions : 0.6 in x 4.8 in x 7.4 in
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