Finding Jesus, Discovering Self: Passages to Healing and Wholeness - Softcover

Caren Goldman; William Dols

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819221996 ISBN 13: 9780819221995

Publisher: Morehouse Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

As we meet Jesus of Nazareth in the Gospel narratives, we come face-to-face with our own deepest selves.

Finding Jesus, Discovering Self invites readers to see Jesus with new eyes and then explore, know, experience, and live questions about how 2000-year-old stories and events happen in the world and in our lives today. Each chapter focuses upon a passage from the Gospels. A narrative by one of the authors recalls a personal experience reflecting the ancient text. Questions to which there are no "right" answers offer multi-dimensional opportunities to explore the stories and wonder. Contemporary poetry and prose open new doors to meeting Jesus as a first century Jew and discovering creative, compelling, and challenging possibilities for one's own story, self, and relationship to God.

Written by a Jewish author and an Episcopal priest, Finding Jesus, Discovering Self is a perfect volume for personal reflection or group study, and a unique resource for the Lenten season.

About this title

About the Author:

Caren Goldman, author of Healing Words For The Body,Mind And Spirit: 101 Words to Inspire and Affirm, regularly contributes to Spirituality and Health and other national magazines. She is an associate editor of Bible Workbench, does conflict resolution consulting with congregations and non-profits, and leads seminars and retreats nationwide. She lives in Massachusetts. William Dols, an Episcopal priest, has his PhD in biblical studies and psychology from Graduate Theological Union and University of California Berkeley. He is the author of Just Because It Didn't Happen: Sermons and Prayers As Story, creator and editor of the Bible Workbench, an acclaimed preacher, and a popular retreat and seminar leader. He lives in Virginia.

Review:

"A rich resource for any who seek to understand their own life-journey more fully and deeply." -- Marcus Borg, author of Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time and The Heart of Christianity, November 2005.

"A stunning and perceptive book!" -- John Shelby Spong, author of The Sins of Scripture: Exposing the Bible’s Texts of Hate to Reveal the God of Love, November 2005

"Allows me, a Jewish reader, to learn from a great spiritual leader who has been historically off-limits to Jews." -- Rabbi Bruce Bromberg Seltzer, Chaplain, Smith College; Religious Advisor, Amherst College; and Director, Smith/Amherst Hillel, November 2005

"Offers courageous, poetic, and profound understanding of humanity's brokenness and isolation, and our potentials for healing and wholeness." -- Amy-Jill Levine, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies, Vanderbilt University Divinity School and Graduate Department of Religion

"Powerful nourishment for lives of integrity, faith and work in our own day." -- Edwin M. Yoder Jr., Pulitzer Prizewinning writer and editor; author of ‘Telling Others What to Think: Recollections of a Pundit.’ November 2005

About this edition

• Publisher: Morehouse Publishing
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0819221996
• ISBN 13: 9780819221995
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176