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- catalog abstract ""Five years after his book about God as portrayed in the Old Testament - God: A Biography - Jack Miles gives us his consideration of Christ. He presents Christ as a hero of literature based only in part on the historical Jesus, asking us to take the idea of Christ as God Incarnate not as a dogma of religion but as the premise of a work of art, the New Testament." "As this story begins, God has not kept his promise to end the five-hundred-year-long oppression of the Children of Israel and return them to greatness. Under Rome, their latest oppressor, the Jews face a holocaust. This is God's supreme crisis. Astonishingly, God resolves the dilemma by becoming a Jew himself, Christ, inflicting upon himself in advance the very agony his people will suffer, revising in the process the meaning of victory and defeat. By dying and rising as Christ, God not only swallows up the historical defeat of the Jews but also offers the promise of a cosmic victory that will "wipe away every tear" for all mankind."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12252112.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""Five years after his book about God as portrayed in the Old Testament - God: A Biography - Jack Miles gives us his consideration of Christ. He presents Christ as a hero of literature based only in part on the historical Jesus, asking us to take the idea of Christ as God Incarnate not as a dogma of religion but as the premise of a work of art, the New Testament." "As this story begins, God has not kept his promise to end the five-hundred-year-long oppression of the Children of Israel and return them to greatness. Under Rome, their latest oppressor, the Jews face a holocaust. This is God's supreme crisis. Astonishingly, God resolves the dilemma by becoming a Jew himself, Christ, inflicting upon himself in advance the very agony his people will suffer, revising in the process the meaning of victory and defeat. By dying and rising as Christ, God not only swallows up the historical defeat of the Jews but also offers the promise of a cosmic victory that will "wipe away every tear" for all mankind."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-332) and indexes.".
- catalog description "Part four. The Lamb of God. The changing of the mind of God -- A second Passover -- The last testament of the Lord -- He is arrested, tried, scourged, and sentenced -- He is crucified as King of the Jews -- He rises to life, incorporates, ascends to heaven, and marries -- Epilogue. On writing the lives of God -- Appendix I. One Bible from many scriptures (How it happened and why it matters) -- Appendix II. The Bible as rose window (or, how not to see through the Bible).".
- catalog description "Part three. The lord of blasphemy. He flagrantly violates the law of Sabbath rest -- Scandal spreads, an arrest attempt fails -- He refuses to condemn an adulteress -- "Is he going to kill himself?" -- Interlude: the suicide of God Incarnate in Christian theology -- He resolves the great crisis in his life -- His new commandment: kindness to strangers -- His new promise: victory over death -- He raises a dead friend to life as a sign -- He is marked for death, then exalted as king".
- catalog description "Part two. A prophet against the promise. His inauspicious first cure: a Roman child -- A demon cries out, "I know who you are" -- The men of Nazareth, insulted, try to kill him -- Interlude: the story of his birth -- He repudiates his warrior past -- Interlude: the Roman shoah and the disarmament of God -- The price of his pacifism: John is murdered -- A whore demonstrates his strategy of shame -- He feeds a multitude -- He stills a storm -- He speaks of drinking blood, and many desert him -- He appears in suddent glory on a mountaintop".
- catalog description "Prologue. Crucifixion and the conscience of the West -- Part one. The Messiah, ironically. His life before he was born -- "The winnowing-fork is in his hand" -- John hails him, strangely, as "the lamb of God" -- The Devil tries to take his measure -- Disciples, unsought, follow after him -- He performs his first miracle, but reluctantly -- He stages an attack on the temple, then retreats -- Interlude: the burden of his omniscience -- He speaks of a new creation, but privately -- He talks, but to himself, of God as illness and as remedy -- Interlude: the asexuality of the Father and the sexuality of the Son -- He admits, but to a heretic, that he is the Messiah -- Who do his disciples think he is?".
- catalog extent "ix, 352 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Christ.".
- catalog identifier "0375400141 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Christ.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House,".
- catalog relation "Christ.".
- catalog subject "232 21".
- catalog subject "BT220 .M55 2001".
- catalog subject "Bible as literature.".
- catalog subject "Bible. New Testament Criticism, interpretation, etc.".
- catalog subject "Incarnation Biblical teaching.".
- catalog subject "Jesus Christ Person and offices Biblical teaching.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part four. The Lamb of God. The changing of the mind of God -- A second Passover -- The last testament of the Lord -- He is arrested, tried, scourged, and sentenced -- He is crucified as King of the Jews -- He rises to life, incorporates, ascends to heaven, and marries -- Epilogue. On writing the lives of God -- Appendix I. One Bible from many scriptures (How it happened and why it matters) -- Appendix II. The Bible as rose window (or, how not to see through the Bible).".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part three. The lord of blasphemy. He flagrantly violates the law of Sabbath rest -- Scandal spreads, an arrest attempt fails -- He refuses to condemn an adulteress -- "Is he going to kill himself?" -- Interlude: the suicide of God Incarnate in Christian theology -- He resolves the great crisis in his life -- His new commandment: kindness to strangers -- His new promise: victory over death -- He raises a dead friend to life as a sign -- He is marked for death, then exalted as king".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part two. A prophet against the promise. His inauspicious first cure: a Roman child -- A demon cries out, "I know who you are" -- The men of Nazareth, insulted, try to kill him -- Interlude: the story of his birth -- He repudiates his warrior past -- Interlude: the Roman shoah and the disarmament of God -- The price of his pacifism: John is murdered -- A whore demonstrates his strategy of shame -- He feeds a multitude -- He stills a storm -- He speaks of drinking blood, and many desert him -- He appears in suddent glory on a mountaintop".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue. Crucifixion and the conscience of the West -- Part one. The Messiah, ironically. His life before he was born -- "The winnowing-fork is in his hand" -- John hails him, strangely, as "the lamb of God" -- The Devil tries to take his measure -- Disciples, unsought, follow after him -- He performs his first miracle, but reluctantly -- He stages an attack on the temple, then retreats -- Interlude: the burden of his omniscience -- He speaks of a new creation, but privately -- He talks, but to himself, of God as illness and as remedy -- Interlude: the asexuality of the Father and the sexuality of the Son -- He admits, but to a heretic, that he is the Messiah -- Who do his disciples think he is?".
- catalog title "Christ : a crisis in the life of God / Jack Miles.".
- catalog type "text".