Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God

by JackMiles (Author)

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  2002

  $3.42

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  Paperback
  2003

  $3.42

  In his Pulitzer Prize-winning God: A Biography, Jack Miles offered a highly original approach to the character of the God of the Old Testament, addressing him as a character in a book, a literary charter. In Christ, reading the New Testament but hearing the Old echoing in its every verse, Miles tells the story of the agonising conflict that overtook God when he failed to keep his promise to his people, and the radical change in his character that this failure brought about. Coming after a large number of books pursuing the elusive 'historical Jesus', Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God offers a frankly mythological Christ, delivering a profound and dramatic companion to the story begun in God: A Biography.

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  The dramatic finale to the story began in 'God: a Biography'. God is now in crisis, and we are in the New Testament. 500 years have passed and God has not kept his promise to restore Israel to its old greatness. Worse, Caesar is poised to destroy the Temple and many Jews. God's response is to become a Jew himself...