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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ |
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Philip Yancey |
| ISBN: | 0310385709 9780310385707 0310204070 9780310204077 |
| OCLC Number: | 32590897 |
| Description: | 288 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The Jesus I thought I knew -- Birth: the visited planet -- Background: Jewish roots and soil -- Temptation: showdown in the desert -- Profile: what would I have noticed? -- Beatitudes: lucky are the unlucky -- Message: a sermon of offense -- Mission: a revolution of grace -- Miracles: snapshots of the supernatural -- Death: the final week -- Resurrection: a morning beyond belief -- Ascension: a blank blue sky -- Kingdom: wheat among the weeds -- The difference he makes. |
| Responsibility: | Philip Yancey. |
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Abstract:
Suspose we hear an unkown man spoken of by many men. Suppose we were puzzled to hear that some men said hew ws too tall and some too short; some objected to his fatness, some lamented his leanness; some thought him too dark, and some too fair. One explanation ...would be that he might be an odd shape. But there is another explanation. He might be the right shape.. Perhaps (in short) this extraordinary thing is really the ordinary thing; at least the normal thing, the centre.
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The Jesus I Never Knew
Mention the name "Jesus" and nearly everyone in North America comes up with some mental image....most such images are encrusted with years of tradition from theological preconceptions, Sunday schools, books or even from the media. But what was Jesus really like? And how do you know that your mental...
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Mention the name "Jesus" and nearly everyone in North America comes up with some mental image....most such images are encrusted with years of tradition from theological preconceptions, Sunday schools, books or even from the media. But what was Jesus really like? And how do you know that your mental image of Jesus corresponds to who Jesus really was?Essentially, this is the question asked and answered in Philip Yancey's The Jesus I Never Knew. His first chapter, "The Jesus I thought I Knew" discusses many of these images, like the "kind and reassuring" Jesus, "with no sharp edges at all--a Mister Rogers before the age of children's television", or the "Star Trek Vulcan" like Jesus, always "calm, cool and collected". Yancey presents evidence from the Gospels themselves, that these and other images of Jesus are not entirely accurate.So Yancy sets out to re-examine our image of Jesus. Its not that he destroys all previous images and then himself reconstructs the way it really was. Rather he uses the Gospels, ancient customs and culture, and modern quotations to cause us to re-think our own views of Jesus. Although I have no way of knowing for sure, I suspect that The Jesus I Never Knew is the evangelical answer to Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time by Marcus Borg, of Jesus' Seminar fame (HarperCollins, 1994). Borg's book is a view of Jesus based on those few bits and pieces of the Gospels and other writings which Borg considers to be authentic. By contrast, Yancey attempts to paint a picture of Jesus which the Gospel writers intended to present.Yancey was once the editor-at-large for Christianity Today magazine. His book is challenging, very well written and easy to read. It won the "1996 Gold Medallion Christian Book of the Year Award" from the Evangelical Christian Publisher's Association.
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