Christ:A Crisis in the Life of God A Biography of God as Man - Hardcover

Miles, Jack

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9780434007370: Christ:A Crisis in the Life of God A Biography of God as Man

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ISBN 10: 0434007374 ISBN 13: 9780434007370

Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd, 2001

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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...

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Review:

'A profound book, the most original and readable contribution to theology to come along in, well, a month of Sundays.' -- Mail On Sunday

'a wide-ranging, eloquent and arresting account'. -- The Daily Mail

‘A scintillating work of literary scholarship that will forever color, if not downright alter, our conception of the Bible as a work of art.’ -- The New York Times

‘No summary of mine can do justice to the richness of this book.’ -- Paul Johnson in Commentary

‘Splendidly interesting and alive’ -- Lorna Sage in the Observer

From the Publisher:

In this brilliant and original book, following his Pulitzer Prize-winning God: A Biography, Jack Miles explores the life of Jesus as an episode in the history of God. Writing neither as a theologian nor as an historian but as a literary critic, Jack Miles has captured once again the lost, fierce, ecstatic power of the greatest classic of our literature.

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