What the Gospels Meant - Hardcover

Wills, Garry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670018716 ISBN 13: 9780670018710

Publisher: Viking Adult, 2008

Synopsis

The author of What Paul Meant and What Jesus Meant presents a biblical analysis of the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, evaluating each for their evangelistic style and goals while revealing key differences in how each writer portrayed Jesus. 100,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Garry Wills is one of the most respected writers on religion today. He is the author of Saint Augustine’s Childhood, Saint Augustine’s Memory, and Saint Augustine’s Sin, the first three volumes in this series, as well as the Penguin Lives biography Saint Augustine. His other books include “Negro President”: Jefferson and the Slave Power, Why I Am a Catholic, Papal Sin, and Lincoln at Gettysburg, which won the Pulitzer Prize.

From AudioFile:

You hear the former Jesuit seminarian in the voice of Garry Wills. This is not a shy, self-hating writer. This is a minister, a prophet. Now in his 70s, he can still rouse those dozing in the back pews. In this, as in other recent books, the prize-winning writer (one Pulitzer and two National Book Critics Circle Awards) brings recent discoveries to bear on the Gospels. As what was taken for historical fact is changing and falling away, Wills referees the ensuing battle between reason and faith, confident that both can survive intact. The New Testament, he tells us, gives "four different takes on the central mystery. Since the mystery at the center of it all will never be exhausted, we need all of these angles of vision . . . ." B.H.C. © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0670018716
• ISBN 13: 9780670018710
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224