Jesus - A New Vision [antikvár]

"Is it possible in our secular age to restore Jesus to the decisive place that Christians for 2,000 years have accorded him? In Jesus: A New Vision, Marcus Borg does it. Without bypassing New Testament scholarship at any point, this breakthrough book restores to Jesus the Spirit-in the full-blooded, ontological sense of that word-that scholarship has so largely drained him of. Point by point Borg shows how Jesus' empowering relation with God issued in a social program that is as relevant to today's world as to the one in which he lived. This is the book about Jesus I have been waiting for my entire career." -Huston Smith, Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion Emeritus, Syracuse University, author of The Religions of Man and Torgotten Truth "A scholar who is alive in wonder and belief, Borg accomplishes the hardest task of all: he looks at the obvious and helps us to see it as if for the first time."-Eugene H. Peterson, author of A Long Obedience in the Same Direction, Working the Angles, and Reversed Thunder "Jesus: A New Vision not only helps us recover how Jesus appeared to his contemporaries-as a God-intoxicated man-but alsó helps us gain a fresh perspective on understanding Jesus' significance for our times."-Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University, author of Against the Nations "Borg's new book distills a wealth of scholarship into a readily accessible form, and demonstates that the study of the historical Jesus" is still highly relevant to the contemporary church and world. He makes the bold attempt to integrate serious study of the historical Jesus with the study of religion in generál. The result is an exciting treatment that continually jolts the reader into seeing well-known themes in fresh, sometimes startiing light. Borg has issued an important challenge both to mainline scholarship and popular piety." -N. Thomas Wright, Worcester College, Oxford University f? S-,-J