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Reading Jesus by Mary Gordon (2009, Hardcover) 
Reading Jesus by Mary Gordon (2009, Hardcover)

 
Reading Jesus by Mary Gordon (2009, Hardcover)

Author: Mary Gordon
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Publication Date: 2009-10-27
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0375424571
ISBN-13: 9780375424571
Product ID: EPID71943973
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Publication Date:2009-10-27

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Length:205 pages
Height:8.5 in
Width:5.8 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:13.6 oz

Publisher's Note
A lifelong Christian evaluates the differences between her beliefs and those of fellow Christians, describing her efforts to study Jesus as a character of the Gospels, in an analysis of biblical stories through which the author developed a greater awareness of Jesus as a deity in human form. By an O. Henry Award-winning author.

In the introduction to this remarkable book, Mary Gordon is riding in a taxi as the driver listens to a religious broadcast, and she reflects that, though a lifelong Christian, she is at odds with many others who identify themselves as Christians. In an effort to understand whether or not she had "invented a Jesus to fulfill my own wishes," she determined to read the Gospels as literature and to study Jesus as a character. What results is a vibrantly fresh and personal journey through the Gospels, as Gordon plumbs the mysteries surrounding one of history's most central figures. In this impassioned and eye-opening book, Gordon takes us through all the fundamental stories--the Prodigal Son, the Temptation in the Desert, the parable of Lazarus, the Agony in the Garden--pondering the intense strangeness of a deity in human form, the unresolved more ambiguities, the problem posed to her as an enlightened reader by the miracle of the Resurrection. What she rediscovers--and reinterprets with her signature candor, intelligence, and straightforwardness--is a rich store of overlapping, sometimes conflicting teachings that feel both familiar and tantalizingly elusive. It is this unsolvable conundrum that rests at the heart of READING JESUS and with which Gordon keeps us in thrall on every page.

Industry Reviews
"READING JESUS arrives at a time when anti-intellectual evangelists and elitist infidels are dominating the religious discourse. This book will appeal to readers who are leery of Rick Warren's pious platitudes and Christopher Hitchens' free thinking smarminess. With Aquinan equilibrium, Gordon reaffirms the notion that faith and reason are not mutually exclusive. She proposes no answers; she just raises a lot of interesting questions."
(11/07/2009)

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