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Christ Actually: The Son of God for the Secular Age

by James Carroll
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Christ Actually: The Son of God for the Secular Age
Christ Actually: The Son of God for the Secular Age

Faith after atrocity, doubt, and modernity

James Carroll reconsiders belief in Jesus for a secular age. He foregrounds Jesus’ Jewish identity while engaging science, philosophy, and twentieth-century atrocities. Drawing on scholarship and personal faith, he revisits the Gospels to explore Christianity’s future.

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by James Carroll
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ISBN: 9780670786039
Author: James Carroll
Publisher: Viking
Date of Publication: 2014-11-13
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: History, Religion, Philosophy
Related Topics: History, Christian Non Fiction, Christianity, Spirituality, Christian, Faith, Theology
Goodreads rating: 3.85
(rated by 271 readers)

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A New York Times bestselling and widely admired Catholic writer explores how we can retrieve transcendent faith in modern times. Critically acclaimed and bestselling author James Carroll has explored every aspect of Christianity, faith, and Jesus Christ except this central question: What can we believe about—and how can we believe in—Jesus in the twenty-first century in light of the Holocaust and other atrocities of the twentieth century and the drift from religion that followed? What Carroll has discovered through decades of writing and lecturing is that he is far from alone in clinging to a received memory of Jesus that separates him from his crucial identity as a Jew, and therefore as a human. Yet if Jesus was not taken as divine, he would be of no interest to us. What can that mean now? Paradoxically, the key is his permanent Jewishness. No Christian himself, Jesus actually transcends Christianity. Drawing on both a wide range of scholarship as well as his own acute searching as a believer, Carroll takes a fresh look at the most familiar narratives of all—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Far from another book about the “historical Jesus,” he takes the challenges of science and contemporary philosophy seriously. He retrieves the power of Jesus’ profound ordinariness, as an answer to his own last question—what is the future of Jesus Christ?—as the key to a renewal of faith.
 

Faith after atrocity, doubt, and modernity

James Carroll reconsiders belief in Jesus for a secular age. He foregrounds Jesus’ Jewish identity while engaging science, philosophy, and twentieth-century atrocities. Drawing on scholarship and personal faith, he revisits the Gospels to explore Christianity’s future.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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