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Reading Jesus : a writer's encounter with the Gospels
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A lifelong Christian evaluates the differences between her beliefs and those of fellow Christians, describing her efforts to study Jesus as a character of the Gospels, in an analysis of biblical st...
A lifelong Christian evaluates the differences between her beliefs and those of fellow Christians, describing her efforts to study Jesus as a character of the Gospels, in an analysis of biblical stories through which the author developed a greater awareness of Jesus as a deity in human form.
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- Creator
- Mary Gordon
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- First edition
- New York : Pantheon Books, [2009]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
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- xxiii, 205 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780375424571, 0375424571
- OCLC
- ocn303041558
- Includes bibliographical references.
- These fragments I have shored against my ruins. The running father, the starving son, the fatted calf, the husks, the unbearable question ; Swine ; The burning tongue, the barren womb ; Perfume, hair ; A dream of whiteness ; The dark garden ; The fig tree ; The temptation in the desert ; The writing on the ground ; The blessed -- The problem of Jesus : reading through anger, confusion, disappointment, loss. The problem of miracles ; The problem of asceticism : do we want to live like this? ; The problem of perfection : could we live the way he says even if we wanted to? ; The problem of apocalypticism ; Contradiction, conundrum, paradox ; The tainted text : the problem of the Jews ; The problem of divinity ; Wrestling -- The Seven Last Words and the last words