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A Crisis in the Life of God

A Crisis in the Life of God

A Crisis in the Life of God

By Jack Miles

By Jack Miles

By Jack Miles

By Jack Miles

By Jack Miles
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Nov 09, 2001 | 654 Minutes

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    About Christ

    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.

    About Christ

    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.

    About Christ

    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.

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    About Jack Miles

    JACK MILES pursued religious studies at Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and holds a doctorate in Near Eastern languages from Harvard University. In 2002 he was named a MacArthur Fellow, and he currently serves as Distinguished… More about Jack Miles

    About Jack Miles

    JACK MILES pursued religious studies at Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and holds a doctorate in Near Eastern languages from Harvard University. In 2002 he was named a MacArthur Fellow, and he currently serves as Distinguished… More about Jack Miles

    About Jack Miles

    JACK MILES pursued religious studies at Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and holds a doctorate in Near Eastern languages from Harvard University. In 2002 he was named a MacArthur Fellow, and he currently serves as Distinguished… More about Jack Miles

    Product Details

    Category: Philosophy | Biography & Memoir | Religion

    Paperback | $16.95
    Published by Vintage
    Nov 05, 2002 | 368 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679781608

    Category: Philosophy | Biography & Memoir | Religion

    Ebook | $6.99
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    Apr 27, 2011 | 368 Pages | ISBN 9780307789105

    Category: Philosophy | Biography & Memoir | Religion | Audiobooks

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    Published by Random House Audio
    Nov 09, 2001 | 654 Minutes | ISBN 9781415911624

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    Praise

    “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], Miles’s book has great power and depth.” –The New Yorker

    Author Essay

    Knopf sent advance reader’s editions of Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God to several readers–the first who answered the call which was posted on the home page of the Borzoi Reader. In turn, the readers agreed to read the book and respond with a question for Jack Miles. For their work, they received autographed copies of the printed hardcover.

    Read the readers’ questions and Jack Miles’s answers, and read an essay by the author.

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