Reading Jesus is a personal journey through the fundamental Biblical stories. As celebrated author Mary Gordon ponders the intense strangeness of a deity in human form, unresolved moral ambiguities within the text, and the problem posed to her as an enlightened reader by the miracle of the Resurrection. What she rediscovers—and reinterprets with her signature candor, intelligence, and straightforwardness—is a rich store of overlapping, sometimes conflicting teachings that feel both familiar and tantalizingly elusive.
The Washington Post - Ron Charles…[a] brisk, provocative survey of the major events and statements of Jesus's life. Though far too cursory to work as an introduction to the Gospels, Reading Jesus should appeal to anyone in that great multitude of thoughtful or lapsed Christians who feels the Scriptures growing stale and ossified, anyone who wants to wrestle with the uncomfortable problems and irreconcilable paradoxes of the New Testament. I am ready, she writes, at any time to learn that almost everything and anything I know is wrong, or at least in need of radical revision. If you share that sort of fluid curiosity in sacred matters, take this book and eat it up.
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- History
- World
- Religious
- General
- Religious
- World
Publisher : Pantheon
Author : Gordon, Mary
Language : English
Edition : 1
Published :2009-10-27
Number Of Pages : 240
Binding : hardcover
ISBN-10 : 0375424571
ISBN-13 : 9780375424571
Item weight : 0.85 lb
Dimensions : 1 in x 5.8 in x 8.3 in
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