Christ
A Crisis in the Life of God
Miles, Jack
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
With the same passionate scholarship and analytical audacity he brought to the character of God, Jack Miles now approaches the literary and theological enigma of Jesus. In so doing, he tells the story of a broken promise–God’s ancient covenant with Israel–and of its strange, unlooked-for fulfillment. For, having abandoned his chosen people to an impending holocaust at the hands of their Roman conquerors. God, in the person of Jesus, chooses to die with them, in what is effectively an act of divine suicide.
On the basis of this shocking argument, Miles compels us to reassess Christ’s entire life and teaching: His proclivity for the powerless and disgraced. His refusal to discriminate between friends and enemies. His transformation of defeat into a victory that redeems not just Israel but the entire world. Combining a close reading of the Gospels with a range of reference that includes Donne, Nietzche, and Elie Wiesel, Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God is a work of magnificent eloquence and imagination.
BOOK REVIEWS
Provocative and deeply engaging. . . . This is a spectacular story, and Miles tells it well. . . . Exciting reading. --The New York Times Book Review
No one who reads it will be able to think about even the most familiar Biblical scenes in quite the same way. --Newsday
The brilliance of Jack Miles's new book on Christ is that it manages to "make strange" the best-known story in history. . . . Stratlingly original. The New Statesman
As a way of seeing [God], Miless book has great power and depth. --The New Yorker
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0679781609
ISBN(13-digit): 9780679781608
Copyright: 2002
Dewey Decimal: 232
Library of Congress: BL2002012949
Book Publisher: Random House Inc
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 352
Paper Weight (lb): 0.6
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