The Jesus I Never Knew
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (579 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1491521287 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 504 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-02 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Poetic license" according to Ned Ferguson. Mr. Yancey has written a thought provoking book, trying to recapture a fresh perspective and rescue the long time disciple from the curse of familiarity and presupposition. However he often lets poetic license outstrip strict adherence to biblical authority. Reductio logic would take some of his suppositions into heretical territory. He also makes a crack concerning Jesus's failure to directl. If you're going to read one book about Jesus, Amazon Customer If you're going to read one book about Jesus, make it the Bible. If you're going to read two, this is my suggestion for the second. A serious attempt to dig into the person of Jesus, both divine and historical, working from the Biblical stories up rather than from our current theology down, Yancey's book tackles everything from Jesus' Jewish roots to the Beatitudes ("lucky are the unlucky"), . 8mom said The Jesus I Never Knew. This exploration of the life of Christ in the Gospels is thoughtful and sometimes startling. It is well written and provocative and engaging, definitely worth the time spent.
Yancey is not alone in his examination of the "real" Jesus. He determined to use his journalistic talents to approach Jesus, in the context of time, within the framework of history. In fact, he found himself further and further removed from the person of Jesus, distracted instead by flannel-graph figures and intellectual inspection. Step by step, scene by scene, Yancey probes the culture into which Jesus was born and grew to adulthood; his character and mission; his teachings and miracles; his legacy--not just as history has told it, but as he hi
"No one who meets Jesus ever stays the same," says Yancey. "Jesus has rocked my own preconceptions and has made me ask hard questions about why those of us who bear his name don't do a better job of following him.". The Jesus I Never Knew uncovers a Jesus who is brilliant, creative, challenging, fearless, compassionate, unpredictable, and ultimately satisfying. "There is no writer in the evangelical world that I admire and appreciate more." —Billy GrahamPhilip Yancey helps reveal what two thousand years of history covered up….What happens when a respected Christian journalist decides to put his preconceptions aside and take a long look at the Jesus described in the Gospels? How does the Jesus of the New Testament compare to the "new, rediscovered" Jesus—or even the Jesus we think we know so well? Philip Yancey offers a new and different perspective on the life of Christ and his work—his teachings, his miracles, his death and resurrection—and ultimately, who he was and why he came.From