Jesus : a biography from a believer /
Johnson, Paul, 1928-
Jesus : a biography from a believer / Paul Johnson. - New York, N.Y. : Viking, 2010. - 1 online resource (242 p.)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 229) and index.
Man and God -- Birth, childhood, youth -- Baptism, temptations, and the Apostles -- The danger of the miracles -- What Jesus taught and why -- Poetry and parables, questions and silence -- Encounters : men, women, children, the aged -- Jesus's new Ten Commandments -- Jesus's trial and crucifixion -- The resurrection and the birth of Christianity.
"With a superb historian's command of the subject, Johnson places Jesus in the context of the Roman Empire, into which he was born. With a masterly writer's love of language, Johnson elucidates Jesus's profound teachings. With a believer's passion, he reaches "behind the written text to the full meaning of sayings and episodes which need to be explained afresh to each generation." The result is a probing, lucid, deeply moving biography of a man whose life changed the course of history." --Cover, p. 2.
9781101196823 (electronic bk.) 1101196823 (electronic bk.) 9781101197660 (electronic bk.) 1101197668 (electronic bk.)
Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ--Biography.
Electronic books.
BT 301.2 / J58J 2010
Jesus : a biography from a believer / Paul Johnson. - New York, N.Y. : Viking, 2010. - 1 online resource (242 p.)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 229) and index.
Man and God -- Birth, childhood, youth -- Baptism, temptations, and the Apostles -- The danger of the miracles -- What Jesus taught and why -- Poetry and parables, questions and silence -- Encounters : men, women, children, the aged -- Jesus's new Ten Commandments -- Jesus's trial and crucifixion -- The resurrection and the birth of Christianity.
"With a superb historian's command of the subject, Johnson places Jesus in the context of the Roman Empire, into which he was born. With a masterly writer's love of language, Johnson elucidates Jesus's profound teachings. With a believer's passion, he reaches "behind the written text to the full meaning of sayings and episodes which need to be explained afresh to each generation." The result is a probing, lucid, deeply moving biography of a man whose life changed the course of history." --Cover, p. 2.
9781101196823 (electronic bk.) 1101196823 (electronic bk.) 9781101197660 (electronic bk.) 1101197668 (electronic bk.)
Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ--Biography.
Electronic books.
BT 301.2 / J58J 2010