Beginning with Jesus' birth Ken Bailey leads us on a kaleidoscopic study of Jesus in the four Gospels Bailey examines the life & ministry of Jesus with attention to the Lord's Prayer the Beatitudes Jesus' relationship to women & especially Jesus' parables Throughout the author employs his trademark expertise as a master of Middle Eastern culture to lead us into a deeper understanding of the person & significance of Jesus lifting away the obscuring layers of modern Western interpretation to reveal Jesus in the light of his actual historical & cultural setting ...

Jesus' Son is a visionary chronicle of dreamers addicts & lost souls These stories tell of spiralling grief & transcendence of rock bottom & redemption of getting lost & found & lost again The narrator of these interlinked stories is a young unnamed man reeling from his addiction to heroin & alcohol his mind at once clouded & made brilliantly lucid by these drugs In the course of his adventures he meets an assortment of people who seem as alienated & confused as he; sinners misfits the lost the damned the desperate & the forgotten Our of their bleak seemingly random lives Denis Johnson creates modern-day parables of a harsh & devastating beauty ...

Two billion people today identify as Christians with the implication that Jesus is the focus of their relationship with God & their way of living in the world Such followers of Jesus are now more numerous & make up a greater proportion of the world's population than ever before Despite its decline in the West Christianity is rapidly increasing in areas such as Africa & China Richard Bauckham explores the historical figure of Jesus evaluating the sources & concluding that they provide us with good historical evidence for his life & teaching In order to place Jesus in his proper historical context as a Jew from Galilee in the early first century of our era Bauckham looks at Jewish religion & society in the land of Israel under Roman rule He explores Jesus' symbolic practices as well as his teachings looks at his public career & emphasises how his actions such as healing & his association with notorious sinners were just as important as his words Bauckham shows that Jesus was devoted to the God of Israel with a special focus on God's fatherly love & compassion & like every Jewish teacher he expounded the Torah but did so in his own distinctive way With a discussion about the way Jesus understood himself & what finally led to his death as a criminal on a Roman cross he concludes by considering the significance Jesus has come to have for Christian faith worldwide ABOUT THE SERIES The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly Our expert authors combine facts analysis perspective new ideas & enthusiasm to make interesting & challenging topics highly readable ...

Still one of Gibran's most well-loved works over 70 years after its original publication Jesus the Son of Man is a striking fictional portrait of Christ as seen through the eyes of his contemporaries Depicting a variety of famous figures from Mary Magdalen to Pontius Pilate Gibran's spellbinding collection of narratives combine historical authority with the supreme eloquence that his admirers hold so dear Fully conscious of the social political & religious realities of Palestine & Rome at the time & at home with the local traditions & language Gibran effortlessly evokes the spellbinding power of Christ's presence upon his associates Presented in an attractive gift format & accompanied by Gibran's original artwork this new edition allows Gibran's inspirational account of Christ to be heard once more ...

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