Christ by Jack Miles
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.
Jack Miles is a writer whose work has appeared in a variety of national magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, where he was literary editor and a member of the editorial board for ten years. The holder of a Ph.D. He has been a Regents Lecturer at the University of California, head of the Humanities Center at Claremont Graduate University, and visiting professor of humanities at the California Institute of Technology. He has a Ph.D. in Near Eastern languages from Harvard University and was a former Jesuit. God: A Biography, his debut book, earned the Pulitzer Prize and has been translated into fifteen languages. Today, he serves as a senior advisor to the J. Dr. Miles resides in Southern California with his wife and daughter, where he works for the Paul Getty Trust, a nonprofit that supports art and scholarship.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780679781608 |
| ISBN 10 | 0679781609 |
| Title | Christ |
| Author | Jack Miles |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2002-11-05 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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