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Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time- The Historical Jesus - the Heart of Contemporary Faith Deluxe Author Company: HarperSanFrancisco Category:
Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time- The Historical Jesus - the Heart of Contemporary Faith Deluxe 4 stars (The future of christianity) - Fundementalists beware, your world may ... File Size: 2.99 kB OS: Windows 98 / NT / 2000 / ME / XP / VISTA License: Paperback - Time Limit, free to try, 11.16 to buy. Software Developed by HarperSanFrancisco Download now (2.99 kB) Click to buy with discount via Amazon (11.16$) Description : Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time- The Historical Jesus - the Heart of Contemporary Faith - 4 stars (The future of christianity) - Funde All Christianity is, to some extent, idolatrous. Christian worship is a response to a worshiper's image of Jesus, and all images of Jesus fall short of his reality--in the same way that all biographies and portraits fail to depict a whole person. In Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, New Testament scholar Marcus Borg attempts to understand how popular images of Jesus connect Christians to their savior and isolate them from him. Borg writes about his own evolving ideas of who Jesus was, considers the scholarly and popular religious evolution of Jesus' public image, and investigates with special care the effects of Historical Jesus research on contemporary images of Jesus. Meeting Jesus Again is written in an affable, gracious, and unflinchingly honest voice. Borg's description of his own faith particularly exemplifies these qualities, and gives the reader a simultaneously safe and unsettling new perspective on the peasant from Galilee: "[T]he central issue of the Christian life is not believing in God or believing in the Bible," he writes. "Rather, the Christian life is about entering into a relationship with that to which the Christian tradition points, which may be spoken of as God, the risen, living Christ, or the Spirit. And a Christian is one who lives out his or her relationship to God within the framework of the Christian tradition." --Michael Joseph Gross This is the Paperback version. The full version can be purchased by clicking on the "Buy Now" button below for around $11.16 USD. Click to buy with discount via Amazon      |