Christ Actually: The Son of God for the Secular Age
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An exploration of transcendent faith in modern times-from the author of the New York Times-bestselling Constantine's Sword
What can we believe about -- and how can we believe in -- Jesus Christ in light of the Holocaust and other atrocities of the twentieth century and the drift from religion that followed? In this urgent and provocative work, award-winning author James Carroll traces centuries of religious history and theology to face this core challenge to modern faith and to rescue it for the secular age.
Far from another book about the "historical Jesus," Christ Actually takes the challenges of science and contemporary philosophy, of secularism, seriously. Carroll retrieves the power of Jesus both as an answer to humanity's perennial longing for transcendence and as a figure of profound ordinariness -- his simple life, and his call to imitate him, all suggest an answer to the question "What is the future of Jesus Christ?" This book points the way.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5In a way, this book is Carroll's answer to the question of Christian anti-Semitism he posed in "Constantine's Sword". What can we say, how can we believe, in God after the Holocaust and Hiroshima? he asks, and then he pursues and comes up with a solid, reasonable answer, through examining the realities of Jewish life in Roman-ruled Palestine. Jesus, Carroll concludes, faced his own version of that question and answered that we are safe in God's love and forgiveness not matter what our weakness,no matter what our suffering. He summarizes a good deal of recent Jesus scholarship but the core of this book rests on Ched Myers' "Binding The Strong Man" and on those who have asked that question about how we believe after the tragedies of the 1940s and every decade since.