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Reading Jesus
Mary Gordon
Reading Jesus
Mary Gordon
In the introduction to this remarkable book, Mary Gordon is riding in a taxi as the driver listens to a religious broadcast, and she reflects that, though a lifelong Christian, she is at odds with many others who identify themselves as Christians. In an effort to understand whether or not she had ""invented a Jesus to fulfill my own wishes,"" she determined to read the Gospels as literature and to study Jesus as a character. What results is a vibrantly fresh and personal journey through the Gospels, as Gordon plumbs the mysteries surrounding one of history's most central figures. In this impassioned and eye-opening book, Gordon takes us through all the fundamental stories---the Prodigal Son, the Temptation in the Desert, the parable of Lazarus, the Agony in the Garden---pondering the intense strangeness of a deity in human form, the unresolved more ambiguities, 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. It is this unsolvable conundrum that rests at the heart of Reading Jesus.
Media | Other N/A (Unknown format) |
Released | January 21, 2024 |
ISBN13 | 9781616374501 |
Label | Tantor Audio Pa |
Dimensions | 163 × 186 × 25 mm · 190 g |
Language | English |
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