| Description |
xiii, 352 pages; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Christ actually. Operation Spark ; Religionlessness ; Jesus a Jew -- Personal Jesus. Where is God? ; Enchantment ; God's legs ; The search for meaning -- The first holocaust. The Jewish War ; The Temple in ruins ; The Temple as the cause of the Gospel ; Wartime literature ; Mark's apocalypse -- The Jewish Christ. Low christology ; A foreign country ; The one God? ; The Son of Man ; Your resurrection ; Precious disappointment -- Gospel truth. The meanings of Jesus ; Symbol of God ; Camera in the tomb ; Apart -- Jesus and John. Eternal thou ; Friend or foil ; Time and end time ; Pacifism ; The commissioning death -- Thou art Peter. Be not afraid ; Not I, Lord ; Peter stood -- The real Paul. Chronology matters ; God suffers with you ; Paul and Rome ; Not a Christian ; The fate of Carthage -- The women, too. Misogyny ; Discipleship of equals ; Men at War ; Dishonoring her ; Mary of Magdala -- Imitation of Christ. Compared to Him ; After Schweitzer ; Quality of suffering ; The left cheek ; In the cloud -- Because God lives. The future of Jesus Christ ; A simple faith. |
| Summary |
Critically acclaimed and bestselling author James Carroll has explored every aspect of Christianity, faith, and Jesus Christ except this central one: 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 of the twentieth century and the drift from religion that followed? What 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. He retrieves the power of Jesus’ profound ordinariness, as an answer to his own last question - what is the future of Jesus Christ? - as the key to a renewal of faith. |
| Subject |
Jesus Christ -- Person and offices.
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| Subject(S) |
Christianity.
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| Added Title |
Son of God for the secular age |
| ISBN |
9780670786039 (hardcover) |
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0670786039 (hardcover) |
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