The Words of Jesus by Phyllis Tickle

The Words of Jesus by Phyllis Tickle

What if you could encounter the words of Jesus on their own, lifted up from the surrounding narratives and presented in their full power and mystery? That's the question Phyllis Tickle--one of America's most beloved writers on Christian spirituality--asked when she set out to write what she calls a "sayings gospel." In The Words of Jesus,Tickle has compiled and arranged all the sayings of Jesus from the first four books of the New Testament and the first chapter of Acts in a way that creates an entirely new kind of encounter with the texts. And she accompanies those sayings with her own personal reflections and commentaries not just on the words themselves but on the One who spoke them.

Phyllis A.Tickle has been on PBS' Religion & Ethics News Weekly, The Hallmark Channel, and National Public Radio on numerous occasions. She is the author of more than two dozen publications, including The Night Hours, which will be released soon, and The Holy Hours, a three-volume series of instructions for fixed-hour devotion. Tickle was the religion editor for Publishers Weekly from 1991 to 1996 and a contributing editor until 2004. He is one of the nation's leading authorities and critics on religion in America. Millington, Tennessee is her home.