Christ
A Crisis in the Life of God
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Word Count
92,000 words, Guess
Page Count
368 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivechristcrisisinli0000mile
- Internet Archivechristcrisisinli00mile
- ISBN-100375400141
- ISBN-139780375400148
- Goodreads1664487
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- Library of Congress Control Number2001033808
- OCLC Control Number47023432
- Open LibraryOL7424827M
Classifications
- LCCBT220 .M55 2001
Description
"Five years after his book about God as portrayed in the Old Testament - God: A Biography - Jack Miles gives us his consideration of Christ. He presents Christ as a hero of literature based only in part on the historical Jesus, asking us to take the idea of Christ as God Incarnate not as a dogma of religion but as the premise of a work of art, the New Testament.". "As this story begins, God has not kept his promise to end the five-hundred-year-long oppression of the Children of Israel and return them to greatness. Under Rome, their latest oppressor, the Jews face a holocaust. This is God's supreme crisis. Astonishingly, God resolves the dilemma by becoming a Jew himself, Christ, inflicting upon himself in advance the very agony his people will suffer, revising in the process the meaning of victory and defeat. By dying and rising as Christ, God not only swallows up the historical defeat of the Jews but also offers the promise of a cosmic victory that will "wipe away every tear" for all mankind."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
Before God spoke his first words, "Let there be light," the words that began the making of the world, what was he thinking?
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