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Son of man : great writing about Jesus Christ / edited by Clint Willis.
Van Pelt Library PN6071.J4 S66 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jesus Christ--Literary collections.
- Jesus Christ.
- Genre:
- Literary collections.
- Literature.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 395 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Thunder Mouth Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- Son of Man brings together twenty-one pieces of great writing inspired by Western civilization's most influential figure. Novelists such as Nikos Kazantzakis have reimagined the story to create deeply moving versions of Jesus. Thinkers such as Stephen Mitchell and Henry David Thoreau have drawn inspiration from it to explore our relationships with each other and with God and nature. Countless writers have drawn upon Jesus' story in their search for meaning in their own lives. Passionate scholars such as John Dominic Crossan and Jack Miles have looked beyond the New Testament to understand the historical Jesus. Together, their work creates a moving portrait of a man whose life and death continue to shape our own lives and the meanings we give to them.
- Contents:
- The Conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth 1
- The Annunciation / Rainer Maria Rilke 19
- Notes from a Desert Sanctuary / Heather King 23
- from The Seven Storey Mountain / Thomas Merton 39
- Old Man Joseph and His Family / Romulus Linney 51
- from The Last Temptation of Christ / Nikos Kazantzakis 91
- from A Palpable God / Reynolds Price 111
- from The Lost Gospel / Burton L. Mack 147
- from The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ / Nicolas Notovitch 155
- from The Gospel According to Jesus / Stephen Mitchell 179
- from Jesus the Son of Man / Kahlil Gibran 201
- from By an Unknown Disciple / Cecily Spencer-Smith Phillimore 217
- from Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography / John Dominic Crossan 225
- from One Jesus, Many Christs / Gregory J. Riley 245
- from The Anti-Christ / Friedrich Nietzsche 283
- from Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God / Jack Miles 301
- from Constantine's Sword / James Carroll 315
- from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers / Henry David Thoreau 339
- from The Man Who Died / D. H. Lawrence 355
- The Gardener / Rudyard Kipling 379.
- Notes:
- "An Adrenaline book"--T.p. verso.
- "A Balliett & Fitzgerald book"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1560253835
- OCLC:
- 48966561
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