Conversations With Jesus: Unexpected Answers to Contemporary Questions - Softcover

Fickett, Harold

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9781576830345: Conversations With Jesus: Unexpected Answers to Contemporary Questions
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1576830349 ISBN 13: 9781576830345
Publisher: Pinon Pr, 1999

Synopsis

Do you ever wish you could meet Jesus? Find out how he would respond to the questions burning in your mind, right now, today?

Then listen to his stories.

Through Harold Fickett's contemporary transformations of Jesus' stories, discover how the parables answer today's questions. Hear what Jesus has to say about the existence of tragedy, whether God is truly loving, why God doesn't reveal himself directly, and our very reason for existence.

Join Harold Fickett as he reflects on his own once-dark spiritual journey and the heartfelt questioning that led to these Conversations with Jesus.

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About the Author

HAROLD FICKETT is the author of several nationally-acclaimed books, including The Holy Fool and Flannery O'Conner: Images Of Grace. He has published numerous articles in such magazines as Publisher's Weekly, Books and Culture, The National Review, and Christianity Today, and spent a year writing a weekly religion column syndicated nationally through the Knight-Ridder Tribune news service. As executive director of the Milton Center, he began the Milton Center postgraduate fellowships and The Glen Workshop. He also co-founded Image: A Journal of Arts and Religion. Currently, he writes full time and speaks.

Reviews

Years ago, Fickett shocked himself by moaning, "I feel so dead inside." In an alcoholism rehabilitation facility at the time, he recovered by asking basic questions again--"Is there a living God?" "What about tragedy?" etc.--and seeking answers in Jesus' parables. He reports gracefully on his consequent "conversations" with Jesus on 11 questions. In each chapter, he discusses a particular question, offers a contemporary story resembling one of Jesus' parables, then explicates the modern story, in the process reproducing its Gospel template (e.g., the Good Samaritan in answer to "How Good Do We Have to Be?") and comparing new and old stories. The order of the questions leads a reader deeper into becoming Jesus' follower, exchanging egoism and self-determination for the love and guidance of God--the ground of genuine life. Fickett's new parables are very good, and his historically informed readings of the Gospel fascinate. By both putting the parables' messages in modern clothing, so to speak, and revealing their original cultural subtexts, Fickett makes them speak doubly powerfully. Ray Olson

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Publisher
Pinon Pr
Publication date
1999
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1576830349
ISBN 13 
9781576830345
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
184
Rating
  • 4.12 out of 5 stars
    8 ratings by Goodreads