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Cargando... What Jesus Meant (2006)por Garry Wills
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. heart of Gospel On the whole I enjoyed reading this book. It certainly presented a few new ways of looking at certain passages of Scripture. However, I do have a few issues with it. Willis, near the beginning, decries those such as Thomas Jefferson who tried to remove anything smacking of the super-natural (miracles, healing, the Resurrection, etc.) and in that I agree with him, but he then proceeds to symbolically interpret almost every miracle event in the gospels. "Satan" is merely a symbolic representation of collective human badness; "Hell" is merely the fact that Jesus felt abandoned on the cross; the virgin birth, Mary being faithful; the temptations in the desert, Jesus' early years being trained (inexplicably) by the Essenes and then Jon the Baptist (remember Satan doesn't exist); those "possessed" were merely sick; and so on. I was a bit curious as to how he would explain the Resurrection, but that managed to be the one super-natural event he retains; why, I don't know. He presents a Jesus who is anti-clerical, anti-liturgy, anti-religion; basically a mix of pietistic Quaker and "spiritual" hippie. He denies the validity of any Church (let alone the Roman Catholic Church), states that apostolic succession is a lie, that there is no Real Presence in the Sacrament (he doesn't even give baptism the time of day), etc. The strange thing is that this comes from a man who considers himself a Roman Catholic, and even has written a book entitled (apparently somewhat ironically) Why I am Catholic, which he doesn't seem to be at all. Now, do not misunderstand me. I am not a "bible literalist" and agree that many of the stories in the Bible should be taken on a metaphorical level. What bothers me, then, is that, to me, Willis appears to do exactly what e spends a chapter condemning others of: namely creating a "Jesus" that sounds remarkably like he is. As a theologian, I can safely say that one should ALWAYS beware of a "Jesus" who agrees it you in every way. So, worth a read, but probably not more than one. Surprisingly good. I share some of the book's insights on my podcast Jesus in Books: http://jesusinbooks.com/scandalous-jesus-leviathan/ sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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In what are billed as "culture wars," people on the political right and the political left cite Jesus as endorsing their views. Wills argues that Jesus subscribed to no political program--He was far more radical than that. It is only by dodges and evasions that people misrepresent what Jesus plainly had to say against power, the wealthy, and religion itself. Jesus came from the working class, and he spoke to and for that class. This book will challenge the assumptions of almost everyone who brings religion into politics--"Christian socialists" as well as biblical theocrats. But Wills is just as critical of those who would make Jesus a mere ethical teacher, ignoring or playing down his divinity--Jesus without the Resurrection is simply not the Jesus of the gospels. He argues that this does not make people embrace an otherworldliness that ignores the poor or the problems of our time.--From publisher description. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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