With the same passionate scholarship and analytical audacity he
brought to the character of God, Jack Miles now approaches the
literary and theological enigma of Jesus. In so doing, he tells the
story of a broken promise-God's ancient covenant with Israel-and of
its strange, unlooked-for fulfillment. For, having abandoned his
chosen people to an impending holocaust at the hands of their Roman
conquerors. God, in the person of Jesus, chooses to die with them,
in what is effectively an act of divine suicide.
On the basis of this shocking argument, Miles compels us to
reassess Christ's entire life and teaching: His proclivity for the
powerless and disgraced. His refusal to discriminate between
friends and enemies. His transformation of defeat into a victory
that redeems not just Israel but the entire world. Combining a
close reading of the Gospels with a range of reference that
includes Donne, Nietzche, and Elie Wiesel, Christ: A Crisis in the
Life of God is a work of magnificent eloquence and imagination.
"From the Trade Paperback edition."
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