Christ Actually. The Son Of God For The Secular Age

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Viking
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2014
Edition: First Edition

Description: 352 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: A New York Times bestselling and widely admired Catholic writer explores how we can retrieve transcendent faith in modern timesCritically acclaimed and bestselling author James Carroll has explored every aspect of Christianity, faith, and Jesus Christ except this central What can we believe about—and how can we believe in—Jesus in the twenty-first century in light of the Holocaust and other atrocities of the twentieth century and the drift from religion that followedWhat Carroll has discovered through decades of writing and lecturing is that he is far from alone in clinging to a received memory of Jesus that separates him from his crucial identity as a Jew, and therefore as a human. Yet if Jesus was not taken as divine, he would be of no interest to us. What can that mean now Paradoxically, the key is his permanent Jewishness. No Christian himself, Jesus actually transcends Christianity.Drawing on both a wide range of scholarship as well as his own acute searching as a believer, Carroll takes a fresh look at the most familiar narratives of all—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Far from another book about the “historical Jesus, he takes the challenges of science and contemporary philosophy seriously. He retrieves the power of Jesus profound ordinariness, as an answer to his own last question—what is the future of Jesus Christ—as the key to a renewal of faith.

ISBN: 9780670786039