Jesus: A Biography from a Believer. (Thorndike Press Large Print Biography Series) - Hardcover

Johnson, Paul

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9781410427397: Jesus: A Biography from a Believer. (Thorndike Press Large Print Biography Series)

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ISBN 10: 1410427390 ISBN 13: 9781410427397

Publisher: Thorndike Press, 2010

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Introduction: Man and God -- Birth, childhood, youth -- Baptism, temptations, and the apostles -- The danger of the miracles -- What Jesus taught and why -- Poetry and parables, questions and silence -- Encounters : men, women, children, the aged -- Jesus's new Ten Commandments -- Jesus's trial and crucifixion -- The resurrection and the birth of Christianity.

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About the Author:

Paul Johnson’s many books, including A History of Christianity, A History of the Jews, Modern Times, Churchill, and Napoleon: A Penguin Life, have been hailed as masterpieces of historical analysis. He is a regular columnist for Forbes and The Spectator, and his work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many others publications. He lives in London.

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Journalist-historian Johnson’s deliberately noncontentious account of history’s most famous man is unapologetically, uncarpingly based on the New Testament. Nearly no other sources are mentioned, and the short further reading list admits nothing by any Jesus Seminar scholar or other revisionist. Since the book is longer than all four Gospels put together, it is obviously more than a conflationary synopsis. Johnson weighs what little is said about Jesus’ childhood and youth and why no more is said; discusses Jesus’ personal affect; notes the qualities of his teaching, especially in the parables; emphasizes his reservations about the miracles he performs; and analyzes how he differentially addressed men, women, children, and the aged. Johnson outlines the “new ten commandments” that Jesus introduced in deed as well as word and with which he intended to prepare his followers not to change the world but to enter the kingdom of God. Lastly, Johnson inspects the Passion, the Resurrection, and their aftermath to Pentecost with intelligent faith. An all-but-unalloyed (the Catholic Johnson favors women in priesthood) gift to all believing Christians. --Ray Olson

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