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A carregar... Christ Actually: The Son of God for the Secular Agepor James Carroll
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. In a way, this book is Carroll's answer to the question of Christian anti-Semitism he posed in "Constantine's Sword". What can we say, how can we believe, in God after the Holocaust and Hiroshima? he asks, and then he pursues and comes up with a solid, reasonable answer, through examining the realities of Jewish life in Roman-ruled Palestine. Jesus, Carroll concludes, faced his own version of that question and answered that we are safe in God's love and forgiveness not matter what our weakness,no matter what our suffering. He summarizes a good deal of recent Jesus scholarship but the core of this book rests on Ched Myers' "Binding The Strong Man" and on those who have asked that question about how we believe after the tragedies of the 1940s and every decade since. ( ) sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
What can we believe about--and how can we believe in--Jesus Christ in light of the atrocities of the twentieth century and the drift from religion that followed? Here, James Carroll traces centuries of religious history and theology to face this core challenge to modern faith. Carroll's search is a highly personal one, beginning with a crucial received memory of Jesus that separates him from his essential identity as a Jew, and therefore as a human. The divinity of Jesus trumped his humanity, including his Jewishness. Yet if Jesus was not taken as divine, he would be of no interest to believers. Thus Carroll takes the God-man question head-on, restoring its perennial answer, but in a new way. Drawing on a wide range of scholarship as well as his own acute searching, Carroll shows how faith in Jesus evolved in the first place. His fresh reading of the Gospels reinstates the context of the Romans' effectively genocidal war against the Jews, a first Holocaust that profoundly distorted the Christian memory of Jesus. In this retrieval, the great characters in Jesus' story, from John the Baptist and Peter to Paul and the various Marys, come to life in a new context. Far from another book about the "historical Jesus," Christ Actually takes the challenges of secularism seriously. The new fact of the human condition, that we are capable now of bringing about the extinction of our species, must change the meaning of faith. Humans of all stripes continue to long for the transcendent, and it is as a figure of transcendence that Jesus Christ most compellingly stands. Finally, Carroll retrieves the power of Jesus' profound ordinariness, his simple life and his call to imitate him, all suggesting an answer to Carroll's own last question--what is the future of Jesus Christ? This book points the way. --From publisher description. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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