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Title: Jesus I Never Knew, The by Philip Yancey ISBN: 0-310-21923-X Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (113 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Thought triggering! One can certainly learn more about Jesus
Comment: As promised by the book title, the author tried to deliver something "insightful" about Jesus to anybody who might even had read the whole New Testament several times. In my opinion, he did the job very well, no matter whether one agrees with his relatively liberal perspective manifest in his later and more well known book "What's so amazing about grace?" or not. Though I think "What's" is even better, I do recommend this to any christian who wants to know more about Christ our Savior.
Below please find some copy and paste for your reference. Hope you like them.
The temptation in the desert reveals a profound difference between God's power and Satan's power. Satan has the power to coerce, to dazzle, to force obedience, to destroy....God's power, in contrast, is internal and noncoercive....As every parent and every lover knows, love can be rendered powerless if the beloved chooses to spurn it. pg76
Jesus did not mechanically follow a list of "Things I gotta do today,", and I doubt he would have appreciated our modern emphasis on punctuality and precise scheduling. He attended wedding feasts that lasted for days. He let himself get distracted by nobody he came across...Two of his most impressive miracles (raising of Lazarus and Jairus's daughter) took place because he arrived too late...Jesus was "the man for others,..He kept himself free - free for the other person. pg 89
As a child, I saw the miracles as guarantees of personal safety.....According to tradition, the eleven disciples who sruvived Judas all died martyrs' deaths...Faith is not an insurance policy...but rather give a secure base from which to face their consequences. pg 181
Jesus' healings are not supernatura miracles in a natural world. They are the only truly natural things in a world that is unnatural, demonized and wounded. pg 183
When I ask a stranger, "What is an evangelical Christian?" I get an answer something like this, " Some who supports family values and opposes homosexual rights and abortion." This trend troubles me because the gospel of Jesus was not primarily a political platform....Jesus did not say, "All men will know you are my disciples ..if you just pass laws, suppress immorality, and restore decency to family and government," but rather "...if you love one another." pg 247
Rating: 3
Summary: Passionate, yet off-base
Comment: Why does Christianity, alone among the world's great religions, feel compelled to prove itself by non-theological means? Why is there such an emphatic search for such items as Noah's Ark or the Walls of Jericho or the tomb of Jesus? Islam, Buddhism, Judaism nor Hinduism does this and one must at some time ask why. And why the obsession with "discovering Jesus"?
This book is an attempt by the author to find the "real" Jesus. One would think that after 2,000 years of worshiping the man, he would be well known but the interest is greater today than ever. The Jesus Seminar with its scholars, archeologists, sociologists, linguists and historians have been trying to do the same thing for years. The problem here is that the author uses the New Testament as the basis for his studies. In one way that is entirely logical - they are the only writings that exist about Jesus. But one must assume that they are not only theologically but historically accurate in order to reach Yancey's conclusions. That means assuming that they were written for the purpose of history rather than theology and that has pretty well been discounted. It's like debating a skeptic by quoting Scripture.
We have a review of Christianity's past along with all the requisite apologies. Then for some reason we veer into the subject of AIDS and world hunger, etc... But the heart of the matter is what Yancey perceives as the "real" Jesus as found in the New Testament words attributed to him. It should be noted that "Jesus Christ" is not a proper name and many of our ideas about him evolved slowly, emerging only after pitched battles between different groups. Christianity almost remained a small, Orthodox, Jewish sect that believed that Jeshua was a very human Messiah who had come to set up an Earthly Kingdom and would return soon.
Rating: 5
Summary: Good Food For Thought
Comment: This book was great food for thought, and I wished that I could buy copies for all of my friends.
Philip Yancy takes an indept look at Jesus's life here on earth and analyse the person Jesus in his ministry,and work for the kingdom. He asks us several times to pause and think.....suggesting that we could possible agree or disagree with certain characteristics written into the gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
He also speaks to some degree of the Jewish faith, and how it was applied at that time. It was a good read and I encourage all Christian readers to check it out some time.
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Title: What's So Amazing About Grace? by Philip Yancey ISBN: 0310245656 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Jesus I Never Knew Study Guide, The by Philip Yancey, Brenda Quinn ISBN: 0310218055 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 16 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Jesus I Never Knew Participant's Guide, The by Philip Yancey ISBN: 0310224330 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $8.99 |
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Title: Disappointment with God by Philip Yancey ISBN: 031021436X Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 28 February, 1997 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Reaching for the Invisible God by Philip Yancey ISBN: 0310247306 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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