The Existential Jesus by John Carroll
Jesus is the man who made the West. But is he relevant to a modern world shaken by crises of meaning?‘Though the word deconstruction is likely to get the police around these days, that is exactly what Carroll's account is: as exciting, difficult and contradictory as the best of Jacques Derrida’
-- Guy Rundle * The Australian *‘The Existential Jesus is textual scholarship of the most objective kind ... Carroll's analysis of the Gospel of Mark is compelling reading.’
-- Alison Cotes * Courier Mail *‘Anyone with doubts about John Carroll being one of Australia's most creative and original thinkers will see them dissipate after a close reading of this book.’
-- Peter Familari * Daily Telegraph *‘This is the Gospel of Mark as you’ve never read it before, but Carroll’s interpretation of Mark’s Jesus suddenly makes sense. It’s a scholarly but not forbiddingly academic study, for Carroll writes like a novelist, his passionate almost frantic style lending conviction to the story.’
-- Alison Cotes * Focus *‘The Existential Jesus has the merit of being a beautiful piece of writing as well as a remarkable piece of thinking. The words dance with each other as well as with the reader, resulting in an experience not unlike listening to a beautiful piece of orchestral music. The different movements are designed to enchant, challenge, shake, delight, confound, and uplift (sometimes one feels all of these things at once, such is the striking depth of language and craftsmanship in expression) until we are ultimately led into silence, which is, of course, the right response to the enigma of Being and of finding oneself before the mystery of I AM.’
-- Dr Felicity McCutcheon * Melbourne Anglican *‘An elegantly written book offering new meanings to well worn stories.’
* Reform Magazine *‘[Carroll] does not bring the biases and learned habits of churchly biblical interpretation. This leaves him free to encounter freshly the power of Mark's story of Jesus ... I was struck by the freshness of this encounter, the willingness to pursue what was found using the tools of textual analysis to unlock the themes, the courage to let the text speak and then, having unpacked it, to just let it be.’
-- Gary Bouma * The Age *‘The Existential Jesus testifies to the need for our culture to grapple once again with the Jesus of the New Testament. John Carroll is right. This task is inescapable if we wish to understand our history and the significance of our civilisation.’
-- Archbishop Peter Jensen * The Monthly *‘ ... the book is well written, and it is clear that the writer is fascinated with Mark's text.’
-- Nahum Ayliffe * The Program *‘The Existential Jesus broadens the debate about Jesus beyond the restrictive framework of traditional church teachings.’
-- Matthew Lamb * Weekend Australian *‘... The Existential Jesus is remarkable for the intensity of the writer's admiration for his subject.’
-- Jill Rowbotham * Weekend Australian *‘Awesome, awe-inspiring ... The Existential Jesus is a work of genius. Like works of genius, it will haunt without being accepted, its impossibility of being absorbed being its power.’
-- Zygmunt Bauman| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781922247254 |
| ISBN 10 | 1922247251 |
| Title | The Existential Jesus |
| Author | John Carroll |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Scribe Publications |
| Year published | 2014-04-10 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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