Deze serie duikt diep in de fundamentele teksten van drie grote religieuze tradities die de wereldgeschiedenis en -gedachte hebben gevormd. Het onderzoekt de gemeenschappelijke draden en verschillen binnen de theologische en filosofische onderbouwing van het jodendom, christendom en de islam. Lezers kunnen een boeiende verkenning verwachten van goddelijkheid, de menselijke conditie en de ethische principes die deze geloven delen. Het is een fascinerende reis om het spirituele erfgoed van de mensheid te begrijpen.
Das Leben Jesu, wie es durch das Neue Testament überliefert wird - jetzt zu lesen wie ein Stück Weltliteratur. Jack Miles entdeckt in der Figur Jesu einen Charakterzug des alttestamentarischen Gottes, der nur in der Person seines Sohnes wirklich sichtbar werden konnte: seine Schwäche, die im Tod am Kreuz bis in die grausamste Form gesteigert wird. Literatur oder Offenbarung? Beides ist denkbar, gleich wie man zum christlichen Glauben steht.
A Crisis in the Life of God
In his Pulitzer Prize-winning God: A Biography, Jack Miles offered a highly original approach to the character of the God of the Old Testament, addressing him as a character in a book, a literary charter. In Christ, reading the New Testament but hearing the Old echoing in its every verse, Miles tells the story of the agonising conflict that overtook God when he failed to keep his promise to his people, and the radical change in his character that this failure brought about. Coming after a large number of books pursuing the elusive 'historical Jesus', Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God offers a frankly mythological Christ, delivering a profound and dramatic companion to the story begun in God: A Biography.
In his Pulitzer Prize-winning God: A Biography, Jack Miles offered a highly original approach to the character of the God of the Old Testament, addressing him as a character in a book, a literary charter.
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE What sort of "person" is God? What is his "life story"? Is it possible to approach him not as an object of religious reverence, but as the protagonist of the world's greatest book—as a character who possesses all the depths, contradictions, and abiguities of a Hamlet? This is the task that Jack Miles—a former Jesuit trained in religious studies and Near Eastern languages—accomplishes with such brilliance and originality in God: A Biography. Using the Hebrew Bible as his text, Miles shows us a God who evolves through his relationship with man, the image who in time becomes his rival. Here is the Creator who nearly destroys his chief creation; the bloodthirsty warrior and the protector of the downtrodden; the lawless law-giver; the scourge and the penitent. Profoundly learned, stylishly written, the resulting work illuminates God and man alike and returns us to the Bible with a sense of discovery and wonder.
Who is Allah? What does He ask of those who submit to His teachings? Pulitzer Prize-winner Jacke Miles gives us a deeply probing, revelatory portrait of the world’s second largest, fastest-growing and perhaps most tragically misunderstood religion. In doing so, Miles illuminates what is unique about Allah, His teachings, and His resolutely merciful temperament, and he thereby reveals that which is false, distorted, or simply absent from the popular conception of the heart of Islam. So, too, does Miles uncover the spiritual and scriptural continuity of the Islamic tradition with those of Judaism and Christianity, and the deep affinities among the three by setting passages from the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Qur’an side by side. In the spirit of his two previous books, God and Christ, and with his characteristic sensitivity, perspicacity and prodigious command of the subject, Miles calls for us all to read another’s scriptures with the same understanding and accommodating eye that we turn upon our own.