The children of abraham is a concise introduction to the work of a scholar who thinks about every aspect of judaism, christianity, or islam in triplicate. This workbook is not intended to replace the word of god as the class text. Three senses are here appealed to hearing, sight, touch as combining to show the reality of christs humanity against the docetic gnostics. A biography, examines the evolution of the character of. The book is impeccably researched and written in a hardhitting but gracious style. A crisis in the life of god is, like miles previous book, a stimulating, challenging work. In this astonishing new book, miles applies the same method to jesus, god incarnate, with even.
This time allah is the central character, and drawing on the quran, but also the hebrew bible and the new testament, miles puts him in play with the crossover figures of adam, noah, abraham, joseph. In a close, careful, and inspired reading of that testament book by book, verse by verse god is seen from his first appearance as creator to his last as ancient of days. Miles shows us god in the guise of a great literary character, the hero of the old testament. Those searching for a more serious read wont want to miss jack miles christ. The crisis of the deeper life was prepared at the request of dr. With god in the quran, jack miles completes the literary pilgrimage that gave us god. The faithful may be disturbed by miles reading of the bible as a portrait of a god capable of changing his mind.
He describe the life of god as going through a crisis, involving guilt over how he dealt with his people in the old testament. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. A biography, jack miles posited the notion that the old testament god was a person, and then pondered his motives and actions as though the deity were a character in a novel. Christa crisis in the life of god by jack miles author grover gardner narrator. Simpson for the purpose of expressing the message of the christian and missionary alliance on the subject of sanctification. Vintage, 1995 is richly deserving of the pulitzer prize, which it won in 1995.
He employs a similar approach in his recent book, christ. Paul getty trust and a member of the pacific council on international policy, is the author of christ. Miles is general editor of the norton anthology of world religions november 2014. Bucking the trend of books about the historical jesus, jack miles offers a purely literary reading of the new testamentrendering jesus as a character whose. The selections will make you laugh, think and pray. A crisis in the life of god 9780679781608 by jack miles.
With the same passionate scholarship and analytical audacity he brought to t. A crisis in the life of god by jack miles goodreads. Miles book god in the quran was published in 2018, the third in his god in three classic scriptures series. Boek maken downloaden als pdf printvriendelijke versie. Jack miles wrote god, a biography, and more recently, christ. A biography on god and the old testament for god, focusing on christ, in the new testament. But jesus is also the word of life and so god incarnate. When it comes to such matters as the fabric of faith, the nature of god, and the atonement of christ, there must be unity. Reviews god, the editor by anna della subin harpers. A crisis in the life of god, miles postulates that god made a mistake, that the devil trapped god into wrecking his own creationfirst in the garden of eden and then in the torturing of job. The life of christ 1 the life of christ frederick farrar 1890 1. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading christ. A biography proposes that god, as an inwardlyconflicted solitary figure, realizes himself by creating the human race and then dealing with it and discovering why he wanted a selfimage in the first place, how he wants to.
Jack miles christ is a sort of sequel to his earlier book, god. Theology and the clash of civilizations by jack miles. The life of christ recommended resources desiring god. The nativity one mile from bethlehem is a little plain, in which, under a grove of olives, stands the bare and neglected chapel known by the name of the angel to the shepherds. Matthew, mark, luke and john is a bible study guide for teenagers and adults to be use d in bible classes in local congregations.
Book description five years after his everywhereacclaimed, brilliantly successful, pulitzer prizewinning book about god as portrayed in the old testament god. So jack miles is quite right, in his new book, christ. In the 1940s, the most important foreign policy intellectual in the united states was george f. His book is a feast of staggering insight, luscious locution, and daring conjecture that makes it read as grippingly as a novel. A crisis in the life of god kindle edition by miles, jack. Jack miles, senior advisor to the president at the j. In this book jack miles does what he did with god in his book god. It is impossible to know christ without knowing the bible. He presents christ as a hero of literature based only in part on the.
Anita diamant is the author of the red tent, a work of historical fiction about women in the old testament. It so thoroughly summarized the teaching of the founder of the movement, and was found by alliance people to be such a satisfactory exposition of this. Treating the bible as a literary text is a standard approach in certain areas of scholarship. W ho was god speaking to when he said let there be light. Jack miles born july 30, 1942 is an american author. Whether it is also fanciful and problematic, readers will have to decide,christian century. J ack miles is not only one of the most original, but also most literate, of scholars wrestling with the meaning of god and christ today. His approach throughout the book is one of literary analysis. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. There was nobody to hear him, no spouse, no servants, not even a mythic animal, wrote jack miles in god.
Full of hope and encouragement, this is a great gift book. In that work, he constructed a character analysis of god, based strictly upon a literary study of the hebrew bible. His philosophy regarding the need for this critical book. Rather, it consists of questions within the framework. In the former, he endeavours to write a biography of god in terms of understanding this protagonist as a literary character a figure depicted in a sets of texts, i. In 1996, jack miles wrote a pulitzer prizewinning work entitled god.
The children of abraham princeton university press. The life of christ study guide to the four gospel accounts. Jack miles has had a long and varied history with religion. Jack miles innovation is to treat god as the main protagonist of this. As an alternative, the kindle ebook is available now and can be read on any device with the free kindle app. A biography jack miles gives us his striking consideration of christ.
God audiobook by jack miles, read by michael prichard. A crisis in the life of god, was named a new york times notable book of 2002. Editor picks religions for the first norton anthology of. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. A crisis in the life of god, invites readers to look at jesus in similar fashion. This detailed literature summary also contains topics for discussion and a free quiz on god.